Acronyms

ACP adjacent channel power

ACPR adjacent channel power ratio

ADC analog-to-digital converter

ADSL asymmetrical DSL

AM amplitude modulation

AMPS advanced mobile phone service

ANSI American National Standards Institute

API application programming interface

Arb arbitrary waveform generator

ASIC application-specific integrated circuit

ATE automatic test equipment

ATM asynchronous transfer mode

ATPG automatic test program generator

BERT bit error rate test

BGA ball grid array

BISR built-in self-repair

BIST built-in self-test

BITE built-in test equipment

BPSK binary phase-shift keying

CAMAC computer-automated measurement and control

CCDF complementary CDF

CD compact disk

CDF cumulative distribution function

CDMA code division multiple access

CD-ROM compact disk read-only memory

CMRR common-mode rejection ratio

CODEC coder/decoder

COTS commercial off-the-shelf

CPU central processor unit

CRC cyclic redundancy check

DAC digital-to-analog converter

dBm decibels relative to 1 mW

dBV decibels relative to 1 V

DDR double data rate

DFT design for test

DLL dynamic link library

DMA direct memory access

DRAM dynamic RAM

DSL digital subscriber line

DSO digital storage oscilloscope

DSP digital signal processor

DUT device under test

DWDM dense WDM

EISA extended ISA (bus)

EMC electromagnetic compatibility

EMI electromagnetic interference

EOS electrical overstress

ESD electrostatic discharge

ESS environmental stress screening

FDDI fiber-distributed data interface

FEA finite element analysis (software)

FFT fast Fourier transform

FIB focused ion beam

FIFO first-in, first out (buffer)

FIR finite impulse response (filter)

FM frequency modulation

FTP file transfer protocol

GMR giant magnetoresistive

GMSK Gaussian minimum shift keying

GPIB general-purpose interface bus

GPS global positioning system

GSM global system for mobile communications

GTEM gigahertz transverse electromagnetic

GUI graphical user interface

HALT highly accelerated life test

HASS highly accelerated stress screening

HTML hypertext markup language

HTTP hypertext transfer protocol

ICT in-circuit tester

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ISA industry standard architecture (bus)

ISDN integrated services digital network

IVI interchangeable virtual instruments

JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council

JTAG Joint Test Action Group

LCC leadless chip carrier

LCD liquid crystal display

µBGA micro-BGA

MCM multichip module

MDA manufacturing defects analyzer

MEMS microelectromechanical system

MR magnetoresistive

MTBF mean time between failures

MTTR mean time to repair

MUX multiplexer

MXI multisystem extension interface

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NVM nonvolatile memory

OATS open-area test site

OTDR optical time-domain reflectometer

PCI peripheral component interconnect (bus)

PCM pulse code modulation

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDF probability distribution function

POTS plain old telephone system

PSD power spectral density

PSK phase-shift keying

PXI PCI extensions for instrumentation

QFP quad flat pack

QPSK quadrature phase shift keying

RAM random access memory

RDRAM Rambus dynamic RAM

RFI radio frequency interference

RISC reduced instruction set computer

ROM read-only memory

SAE Society of Automotive Engineers

SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition

SCPI standard commands for programmable instruments

SDH synchronous digital hierarchy

SNR signal-to-noise ratio

SOC system on a chip

SONET synchronous optical network

SPICE simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis

SQL structured query language

TCP/IP transmission control protocol/Internet protocol

TDMA time division multiple access

TEM transverse electromagnetic

THD total harmonic distortion

UDP user datagram protocol

UDWDM ultra-DWDM

UPS uninterruptible power supply

USB universal serial bus

VGA video graphics array

VNA vector network analyzer

VXI VMEbus extensions for instrumentation

W-CDMA wideband code division multiple access

WDM wavelength division multiplexing

WORM write once, read many (times)

xDSL digital subscriber line (x represents A, H, or M, 
for example)

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December 2000

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