Technical information

MM200 High-Speed Microwave Modem Glossary
TM086 – Rev. 4.1 G-1
Glossary
G
A
A Ampere
AC Alternating Current
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AIS Alarm Indication System. A signal comprised of all binary 1s.
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ATE Automatic Test Equipment
B
BER Bit Error Rate
BERT Bit Error Rate Test
Bit/BIT Binary Digit or Built-In Test
BITE Built-In Test Equipment
bps Bits Per Second
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
Byte 8 Binary Digits
C
C Celsius
CATS Computer Aided Test Software
CA/xxxx Cable Assembly
CD-ROM Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
CLK Clock
cm Centimeter
COM Common
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check. A system of error checking performed at the
transmitting and receiving stations.
CW Continuous Wave
C/N Carrier to Noise Ratio