Glossary

• ADC - "Analog-to-digital converter", might refer to the "ADC code" returned by a QIE every BX
• AKA - "Also known as"
• AMC13
• ASIC - "Application-specific integrated circuit"
• BE - "Back-end"
• BKP, Bkp - "Backplane", the backplane circuit board at the back of a FE crate
• BX - "Bunch crossing", a 25 ns period of time
• CAPID - "Capacitor ID", AKA CID
• CMS - "Compact Muon Solenoid" experiment
• CID - "Capacitor ID", AKA CAPID
• FC7
• FE - "Front-end"
• FIFO - "First in, first out", the name of a method for data management and also used as the name of some physical components that use said method
• GLIB
• HB - "Hadronic barrel", a component of HCAL
• HBHE - "Hadronic barrel and hadronic endcap", two components of HCAL that are often conceptually combined
• HCAL - "Hadronic calorimeter", a subdetector of CMS
• HE - "Hadronic endcap", a component of the HCAL
• HF - "Hadronic forward", a component of the HCAL
• IGLOO2 - "?", AKA IGLOO
• MCH - "uTCA carrier hub"
• ngCCM - "Next generation clock and control module"
• ngFEC - "Next generation front-end controller"
• ROOT - A data analysis, visualization, and storage framework
• QIE - "Charge integrator and encoder", an ADC ASIC chip
• QIE card - The FE card that that contains a number of QIEs, IGLOO2s, Bridges, VTTXs, etc.
• uHTR - "Micro ?"
• uTCA - "Micro telecommunications computing architecture", the technical name (standard) for the type of BE crate we use
• TDC - "Time-to-digital converter", might refer to the "TDC code" returned by a QIE every BX
• TTC
• VTTX - "?"