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- BU
- Boston University
- CERN
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (formerly Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)
- CMS
- Compact Muon Solenoid
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- DAQ
- Data AcQuisition
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- DCC
- Data Concentrator Card. 9U VMEbus module developed by us, currently about 35 installed in CMS
- ECAL
- Electromagnetic Calorimeter
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- FTDI
- Future Technologies Devices International
- FPGA
- Field Programmable Gate Array
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- HCAL
- Hadron CALorimeter
- HTR
- Hcal Trigger/Readout card. 9U VMEbus module developed by University of Maryland, currently about 400 installed in CMS.
- ILS
- Instrument Landing System
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- JTAG
- Joint Test Action Group
- LVDS
- Low Voltage Differential Signaling
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- MCH
- MicroTCA Carrier Hub. The required controller module for a MicroTCA crate. A crate may have 1 or 2 of these.
- MicroTCA
- Micro Telecommunications Architecture. The bus standard for the little electronics crates with the blinky lights.
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- MMC
- MultiMedia Card
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- NFL
- National Football League
- QIE
- Charge (Q) Integrator and Encoder. A fancy ADC used the the RBX to digitize data from HCAL
- RBX
- Readout Box. Enclosure containing photo-diodes and front-end digitizing electronics mounted on the CMS HCAL detector. Optical fibers from the RBX are connected to the HTR inputs.
- SFP
- Small Formfactor Pluggable. A standard replaceable module for fiber optic links. 4 SFP are located on the front of the AMC13.
- SFP+
- A high-speed variant of SFP
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- TTC
- Trigger and Timing Control
- USB
- Universal Serial Device
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- VORTAC
- VHF Omnidirectional Range/Tactical Aircraft Control
- VMEbus
- Versa Module Eurobus or something. The bus standard for the big electronics crates with the blinky lights. Cards come in 6U (small) and 9U (large) sizes.
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