10 TB9100 Reciter Service Manual
© Tait Electronics Limited January 2006
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association
PCM highway A TDM bus typically used for interconnecting
CODECs and DSPs
PHY Ethernet PHYsical interface
PIT Periodic Interrupt Timer
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PowerPC™ A microprocessor architecture defined by IBM
and Motorola
PowerQUICC™ PowerPC Quad Integrated Communications
Controller, a PowerPC integrated with a
QUICC
pp Peak to Peak
PPC PowerPC™
ppm Parts Per Million
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
QUICC™ Quad Integrated Communications Controller,
a version of a CPM
Reciter Receiver/Exciter - the RF signal handling parts
of the base station excluding the power
amplifier
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer, a general-
purpose processor
RS-232 A standard defining electrical parameters for
serial interfaces
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indication
RTS Request To Send
Rx Receive
RxD Receive Data
SARAM Single-Access RAM
SCC Serial Communications Controller
SDMA Serial DMA
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access
Memory
SIF System Interface
SIO Synchronous Input/Output, a simplified
version of SPI
SIU System Interface Unit
SMC Serial Management Controller
SMI Serial Management Interface, an interface for
management and control of ethernet PHYs