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11.0 Glossary of Terms
ARINC
Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Maintains standards for line-replaceable units in a
aviation, defense, government, healthcare and other industries.
ASI
Asynchronous Serial Interface.
B-Frame
Contains difference information from the preceding and following I- or P-
frame within a GOP
COFDM Coded
Orthogonal
Frequency
Division
Multiplexing
DVB-T Digital
Video
Broadcast
-
Terrestrial
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FEC Forward
Error
Correction.
GOP
A group of successive pictures within a coded video stream. It may be made
up of I frames only, I and B frames, or I, B, and P frames.
Guard Interval An interval between transmissions to prevent data loss and reduce
interference.
H.264
Synonymous with MPEG4, H.264 is an Advanced Video Coding standard
providing high quality at lower bit rates than MPEG-2 / H.263.
HD High
Definition
Television
I-Frame
A fixed image and which is independent of other picture types
P-Frame
Predictive frame; contains motion-compensated difference information from
the preceding frame
PID
13-bit packet ID used to identify an elementary stream in an MPEG
transport stream
QAM
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (16QAM or 64 QAM)
QPSK
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RF Radio
Frequency
RS232
Recommended Standard 232 is a serial binary single-ended data and
control standard for serial ports.
SD
Standard Definition refers digital video resolution not exceeding 480 lines in
an interlaced format. The aspect ratio may be 4:3 or 16:9.
SDI
Serial Digital Interface, eg. SMPTE 259M standard