Vislink RCD9 - Table B-1 Glossary of Terms; Appendix B Glossary of Terms

RCD9 Receiver Operators Manual
Glossary of Terms
Issue No: 1 Page: 32
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Appendix B Glossary of Terms
Item
Description
ADC
Analogue to Digital converter
AES3/EBU
Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcast Union – Standard for two channel
digital audio
ASI
Asynchronous Serial Interface, used for MPEG transmission
BER
Bit Error Rate
BNC
A medium sized RF/Video connector
C
Component Video – Chroma used as YC video format
C/N
Carrier to Noise ratio
COFDM
Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex – a type of RF modulation
CPLD
Complex Programmable Logic device
CVBS
Analogue Composite Video, Blanking & Sync - PAL/NTSC
DAC
Digital to Analogue converter
DVB-T
COFDM modulation according to the international specifications of DVB
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array - A complex programmable Integrated circuit
GaAsFET
Gallium Arsenide Field Effect Transistor, a device used for RF amplification
I
2
C
Inter Integrated Circuit – Two wire (Clock & Data) interface
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display - Alphanumeric panel display
LED
Light Emitting Diode panel indicator
LVDS
Low Voltage Differential Signaling – high speed parallel digital interface
MER
Modulation Error Ratio
MRC
Maximum Ratio Combining (diversity reception)
Mux
Multiplexer
OCP
The Operator’s Control Panel
OSD
On Screen Display
PA
Power Amplifier
PCB
Printed Circuit Board
PID
Packet Identifier – MPEG data packet
PSU
Power Supply Unit
QAM
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QPSK
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RS
Reed Solomon – form of error correction
RS232
A standard data communications format
RS485
A standard data communications format
SDI
Serial Digital Interface
SMA
A small RF connector
SMB
A small RF connector
S/N
Signal to Noise Ratio
SPI
Synchronous Parallel Interface
TS
Transport Stream
VCO
Voltage Controlled Oscillator
XLR 3
An audio connector, the number indicates the number of pins
YC
Component Video – Luma and Chroma - YC video format
YUV
Component analogue video, Luma and Difference Signals
Table B-1 Glossary of Terms