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Acronyms & Abbreviations
APPENDIX D – ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
The following is a list of acronyms and abbreviations that are used by General Dynamics SATCOM
Technologies and may appear in this manual.
A/D................................................Analog to Digital
A ...................................................Amperes
AC.................................................Alternating Current
ACU...............................................Antenna Control Unit
A/D................................................Analog-to-Digital
ASCII .............................................American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASSY .............................................Assembly
AUX...............................................Auxiliary
BDC ...............................................Block Down Converter
BIT.................................................Binary digit
bps ................................................Bits Per Second (Baud)
BW ................................................Bandwidth
C ...................................................Celsius
C/No ..............................................Carrier Relative to Noise
CCW ..............................................Counterclockwise
cm .................................................centimeters
COM ..............................................Common
CPU ...............................................Central Processing Unit
CR .................................................Carriage return
CRLF..............................................Carriage return/line feed
CTS ...............................................Clear to Send
CW ................................................Clockwise
DAC...............................................Digital to Analog Converter
dB .................................................Decibel
dBHz ..............................................Decibel Hertz
dBm ...............................................Decibel referred to 1 milliwatt
DC.................................................Direct Current
DCE ...............................................Data Communications Equipment
DOS...............................................Disk Operating System
DSP ...............................................Digital Signal Processor
DTE ...............................................Data Terminating Equipment
DTR ...............................................Digital Tracking Receiver
EEPROM .........................................Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EIA ................................................Electronic Industries Association
EPROM...........................................Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
FFT ................................................Fast Fourier Transform
FIFO...............................................First In First Out
FIR.................................................Finite Impulse Response
FLT ................................................Fault
ft...................................................Feet
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