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A/D | Analog-to-Digital Converter |
ADA | Programming Language |
ADTS | Advanced Detection Technology Sensor |
AG | Application Generator |
ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
ATL | Advanced Technology Laboratories |
BTD | Benchmark Technical Description |
CAD | Computer-Aided Development |
CE | Compute Element |
CIDS | Configuration Item Development Specification |
COTS | Commercial, Off-The-Shelf |
CP | Command Program |
CSIM | Lockheed Martin Internally-Developed Simulator |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
dB | Decibel |
DFG | Data-Flow Graph |
DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
EAG | Equivalent Application Graph |
EDIF | Electronic Data Interchange Format |
EPROM | Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory |
FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
FIFO | First In, First Out |
FIR | Finite Impulse Response Filter |
FO | Fiber-Optic |
FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array |
GEDAE | Graphical Entry, Distributed Applications Environment |
GFLOP | Billion Floating-Point Operations per Second |
GRAIL | Graph Translator |
GRED | Graphical Editor |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
HOT ROD | Fiber Optic Module from Triquint Semiconductor, Inc. |
HH | Horizontal (transmitted), Horizontal (received) polarization |
HV | Horizontal (transmitted), Vertical (received) polarization |
HW | Hardware |
IC | Integrated Circuit |
IFFT | Inverse Fast Fourier Transform |
I/O | Input/Output |
ISE | Integrated Systems Engineering |
JTAG | Joint Test Action Group (IEEE 1149) |
LFM | Linear Frequency Modulation |
LM | Lockheed Martin Corporation |
MB | Mega Bytes |
Mbps | Millions of bits per second |
MCCI | Management Communications and Control, Inc. |
MCM | Multi-Chip Module |
MC/OS | Mercury Computer Operating System |
MIT/LL | Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory |
MUT | Model Under Test |
NEP | Node Execution Parameters |
OOA | Object-Oriented Analysis |
OOD | Object-Oriented Design |
ORCA | Optimized Reconfigurable Cell Array (FPGA from Lucent Technologies, Inc.) |
PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
PG | Partition Graphs |
PGM | Processing Graph Method |
PGSE | Processing Graph Simulation Environment |
PLD | Programmable Logic Device |
PRF | Pulse Repetition Frequency |
PRICE | Parametric Review of Information for Costing & Evaluation |
RACEway | Interconnect network developed by Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. |
RASSP | Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors |
RCS | Radar Cross-Section |
RDD-100 | System Design Tool - Ascent Logic |
RINO | RACEway In/Out |
RTL | Register Transfer Level |
SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
SBC | Single-Board Computer |
SDF | Standard Delay Format |
SHARC | Super Harvard ARchitecture Computer |
SIMD | Single Instruction, Multiple Data |
SLOC | Software Lines of Code |
SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
SOW | Statement of Work |
SPGN | Signal Processing Graph Notation |
SRTS | Static Run Time System |
SW | Software |
UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
vdc | Volts, Direct Current |
VH | Vertical (transmitted), Horizontal (received) polarization |
VHDL | VHSIC Hardware Description Language |
VHSIC | Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuits |
VME | Versa Module Europa (module format) |
VMEbus | Versa Module Europa Bus |
VP | Virtual Prototype |
VV | Vertical (transmitted), Vertical (received) polarization |