Terms & Acronyms

A – E F – M N – R T – Z

A

ADPCM – Adaptive Differential Pulse-Code Modulation, Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
AEC – Acoustic Echo Cancellation
AF – Alternate Frequency
AFC – Automatic Frequency Control
AGC – Automatic Gain Control
ALIF – Analog IF Output
ALS – Ambient Light Sensor
API – Application Interface
ATA – Analog Terminal Adaptor
ATDD – Analog-tuned Digital Display, Analog Tuned Digital Display
ATE – Automatic Test Equipment
ATV – Analog TV, Analog Television
Automotive – Transportation

B

BLER – Block Error Rate, Block-Error Rate
BOM – Bill-of-Materials, Bill of Materials

C

Carrier Ethernet – Carrier Class Ethernet
CDC – Capacitance to Digital Converter
CDR – Clock and Data Recovery
CID – Global Caller ID
Clock – Integrated Timing Device
Clock Buffer – Clock Distribution
CDC – Capacitance to Digital Converter
CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, PMOS, NMOS
COMB – Chip on Motherboard, Chip-on-Motherboard
CREF – Customer Premise Equipment
CT – Charge Timing, Current Transformer

D

DAA – Direct Access Arrangement
Data Converter – ADC, DAC, Analog to Digital, Analog-to-Digital, Digital to Analog, Digital-to-Analog
DBS – Direct Broadcast Satellite
DMA – Direct Memory Access
DSP – Digital Signal Processing
DSPLL – Digital Signal Processing Phase-locked loop, Digital Signal Processing Phase locked loop
DVB – Digital Video Broadcast

E

EMI – Electromagnetic Interference
Energy Harvesting – Energy Harvesting Reference Design, Low Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Cell, Thermal Energy, Piezo, Piezoelectric, Radio Frequency Waves, No Battery, No Batteries, Captured Energy, Lifetime Operation, Environmentally Friendly Design, Charge, Charging, Long-life Battery, Self Power, Perpetual Energy, Energy Harvester, Harvesting Energy, Energy Harvesting Wireless, Harvested Energy, Energy Scavenging, Energy Scavenger
EPOS – Electronic Point of Sale, Electronic Point-of-Sale
ESD – Electrostatic Discharge
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F

Fanout – Fan Out
FIR – Finite Impulse Response
Free-running – Free Running, Asynchronous
Frequency Multiplier – Clock Multiplier, FS, Frequency Profile Select, Frequency Select
FS – Frequency Select, Frequency Profile Select, Frequency Multiplier, Clock Multiplier
FXS – Foreign Exchange Station

G

Gen – Generation

H

Harvesting – Harvester, Harvesters
HCSL – Host Clock Signal Level, HSCL
HI – Human Interface, QuickSense, Quick Sense, HMI
HID – Human Interface Device
HMI – Human Interface, QuickSense, Quick Sense, HI

I

I2C – SMBUS, Interface to Communicate, RS232, Serial Port, Inter-Integrated Circuit, Serial Data Line, SDA, Serial Clock, SCL
IC – Integrated Circuit
IDE – Integrated Development Environment
iDTV – Integrated TV, Integrated Television
IEEE 1588 – IEEE1588
Infrared – Ir, Touch Less, Touch-less, Touchless, Touch Free
IO – Input/Output, I/O, VarIO
IPC – Industrial PC
IR – Infrared, Touch Less, Touch-less, Touchless, Touch Free
ISI – Intelligent Serial Interface, Integrated Serial Interface
ISM – Industrial Scientific and Mechanical, Radio Spectrum, Radio Frequency Spectrum
ISOdriver – Isolated Gate Driver

J

Jitter – Attenuator, Attenuation, Attenuating

L

LBW – Loop Bandwidth Selection, Loop Bandwidth
LEC – Line Echo Cancellation
LNA – Low-noise Amplifier, Low Noise Amplifier
Low-IF – Low Intermediate Frequency, Low IF
LVCMOS – Low Voltage Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, Low-Voltage Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
LW – Longwave, Long Wave, Long-wave

M

M2M – Machine-to-Machine, Machine to Machine
MAC – Multiply and Accumulate
M-Bus – M bus, MBus, Wireless MBus, Wireless M Bus, Wireless M-Bus
MCU – Microcontroller, 8051, 8-bit MCU, 8-bit, 8 bit MCU, 8 bit
MSO – Multi Subscriber Operator, Multi-Subscriber Operator
MTR – Multi-Touch Resolve, Multitouch Resolve, Multi Touch Resolve
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N

NF – Noise Figure
NIM – Network Interface Module
NMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, CMOS, PMOS
NVM – Non-volatile Memory, Non Volatile Memory

O

ODA – Open Data Applications
ONT – Optical Network Terminal
ONT/U – Optical Network Terminal/Unit, Optical Network Terminals/Units
OOK – On Off Key, On-off-key, On-off Key, On/Off Key
Oscillator – VCXO, XO, Osc, TCXO, Voltage Controlled
OTA – Over the Air
OTN – Optical Transport Network
OTP – One Time Programmable, One-Time-Programmable
OTU – Optical Transport Unit

P

PBX – Private Branch Exchange
PCA – Programmable Gain Amplifier, Programmable Counter Array, Programmable Counter/Timer Array
PCIe – PCI-Express, PCI Express, PCIe Gen 3, PCIe Gen 1, PCIe Gen 2, PCI Express Gen 1, PCI Express Gen 2, PCI Express Gen 3, PCIe generation 1, PCIe generation 2, PCIe generation 3
PCM – Pulse Code Modulation
PD – Power Device
PHY – Physical
PID – Product ID, Product Identification
Piezo – Piezoelectric
PKE – Passive Keyless Entry
PLL – Phase-locked Loop, Phase Locked Loop
PMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, CMOS, NMOS
PoE – Power over Ethernet
PON – Passive Optical Network
POS – Point-of-Sale, Point of Sale
PS – Proximity Sensor, Proximity
PSE – Power Sourcing Equipment
PSRR – Power Supply Rejection Ratio, Power Supply Ripple Rejection
PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network, Public Switched Telecommunications Network
PWM – Pulse-width Modulation, Pulse Width Modulation
PTZ – Pan-Tilt-Zoom, Pan Tilt Zoom

R

RBDS – Radio Broadcast Data System
RDS – Radio Data System, European RDS, European Radio Data System
RF – Radio Frequency, Wireless
RKE – Remote Keyless Entry
RPS – Receive Power Scan
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S

SAME – Specific Area Message Encoding
SAW – Surface Acoustic Wave
SCL – Serial Clock Line
SDA – Serial Data Clock
SDK – Software Development Kit
SELV – Safety Extra Low Voltage
Sensor – Sense, Motion, Sensing, Detect, Detector
SIF – Sound IF
Silicon Labs – Silicon Laboratories, Silicon Laboratories, Inc., Silicon Laboratories Inc., SiLabs, SLAB
SIR – Signal-to-Interference, Signal to Interference
SLIC – Subscriber Line Integrated Circuit, Subscriber Line Interface Circuit
Smart – Intelligent
SMPS – Switch Mode Power Supply, Switch Mode Power Supplies, Switch-Mode-Power-Supply
SMS – Short Message Service
SNR – Signal to Noise Ratio, Signal Noise Ratio
SRC – Source
SRIO – Serial Rapid IO
SSC – Spread Spectrum Clock, Spread Spectrum Clocking
SSCG – Spread Spectrum Clock Generation
SSI – Synchronous Serial Interface
STB – Set-top-box, Set Top Box
SW – Shortwave, short wave, short-wave
SyncE – Synchronous Ethernet

T

TMC – Traffic Message Channel
Touch Screen – Touch-screen, Touchscreen
TPMS – Tire Pressure Monitoring System
TSS – Tracking Shared Supplies

U

UART – Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter, Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter, Serial
UDP – Universal Development Platform
USB – Universal Serial Bus, Universal wireless adaptor

V

VCP – Virtual COM Port
VCXO – Voltage Controlled Oscillator, Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator
VID – Vendor ID, Vendor Identification
VSNR – Video Signal to Noise, Video Signal-to-Noise

W

WB – Weather Band, Weather-band, Weatherband
WDS – Wireless Development Suite
WFT – Wireless Fixed Terminal
Wheel Tuned – Wheel-tuned, Analog tuned, Analog-tuned, Mechanically Tuned, Mechanically-tuned, Wheel-tuning, Analog Tuning, Analog-tuning, Mechanically Tuning, Mechanically-tuning
Wireless – Transmitter, Transceiver, Receiver, SubGHz, Sub GHz, Sub-GHz, Wireless RF, Wireless Communications, Sensor Node, Wireless Sensor Node
WLL – Wireless Local Loop
WOR – Wake on Ring, Wake-on-Ring

X

XAUI – 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface
XO – Oscillator

Y

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