ADC | Analgoue Digital Converter | Electronics | | | |
AFCK | AMC FMC Carrier Kintex (Board) | Electronics | a prototype of Data Processing Board (DPB) | | |
AGWB | Address Generator for WishBone | Electronics | | https://github.com/wzab/agwb | |
ALICE | A Large Hadron Collider Experiment | Experiment | | | |
AMBA | Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture | Electronics | | | |
ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circut | Electronics | | | |
AXI | Advanced Extensible Interface | Electronics | | | |
BNL | Brookhaven National Lab | General | | | |
CA | Cellular Automaton (Tracking) | Algorithms | | | |
CAD | Computer Aided Design | General | | | |
CATIA | Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application | General | | | |
CBM | Compressed Baryonic Matter | Experiment | | | |
CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check | Programming | | | |
CRI | Common Readout Interface | Electronics | | | |
CROB | Common Readout Board | Electronics | | | |
DAQ | Data Aquisition (System) | Experiment | | | |
DCS | Detector Control System | Experiment | | | |
DPB | Data Processing Board | Electronics | | | |
DPF | Data Processing Framework | Electronics | | | |
ECAL | Electromagnetic Calorimeter | Experiment | | | |
eLINK | Electrical Link | Electronics | | | |
eq_id | Equipment identifier | Electronics | | | |
ESR | Experimental Storage Ring | Experiment | | | |
FAIR | Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research | General | | | |
FEB | Frontend Board | Electronics | | | |
FEE | Front End Electronics | Electronics | | | |
FFT | Fast Fourier Transform | Algorithms | | | |
FIFO | First In First Out | General | | | |
FLES | First Level Event Selector | Experiment | | | |
FLES EN | FLES Entry Node | Experiment | | | |
FLES IPC | FLES Inter-process Communication | Experiment | | | |
FLES PN | FLES Processing Node | Experiment | | | |
FLIB | FLES Interface Board | Experiment | | | |
FLIM | FLES Interface Module | Experiment | | | |
FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array | Electronics | | | |
FW | Firmware | Electronics | | | |
GBT | Giga Bit Transceiver | Electronics | A radiation hard ASIC | | |
GEM | Gas Electron Multiplier | Experiment | | | |
GET4 | GSI Event Driven TDC with four channels | Electronics | A type of ASIC | | |
GUI | Graphical User Interface | General | | | |
gDPB | GET4-DPB | Electronics | (TOF and T0) | | |
HADES | High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer | Experiment | | | |
HDL | Hardware Description Language | Programming | | | |
HSD | Hadron String Dynamics | Physics | | | |
HW | Hardware | Electronics | | | |
JSON | Java Script Object Notation | Programming | | | |
LSB | Least Significant Bit | Programming | | | |
mDPB | MUCH-DPB | Electronics | | | |
MS | Microslice | Experiment | | | |
MUCH | Muon Chamber | Experiment | | | |
MSB | Most Significant Bit | Programming | | | |
MVD | Micro Vertex Detector | Experiment | | | |
PANDA | antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt | Experiment | | | |
pDPB | PSD-DPB | Electronics | | | |
PGA | Programmable Gate Array | Electronics | | | |
PHENIX | Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interactions eXperiment | Experiment | An experiment at BNL | | |
PHSD | Parton Hadron String Dynamics | Physics | | | |
PID | Particle Identification | Experiment | | | |
PMT | Photomultiplier Tube | Experiment | | | |
PSD | Projectile Spectator Detector | Experiment | | | |
PWG | Physics Working Group | General | | | |
QCD | Quantum Chromo Dynamics | Physics | | | |
QED | Quantum Electro Dynamics | Physics | | | |
QGP | Quark Gluon Plasma | Physics | | | |
rDPB | RICH-DPB | Electronics | | | |
RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider | Experiment | A particle accelerator at BNL | | |
RICH | Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector | Experiment | | | |
ROB | Readout Board | Electronics | | | |
RPC | Resistive Plate Chamber | Experiment | | | |
SCA | Slow Control Adapter | Electronics | | | |
sDPB | STS(XYTER)-DPB | Electronics | | | |
SIS100 | Schwerionensynchroton mit 100 Teslametern | Experiment | | | |
SLR | Super Logic Region | Electronics | A single FPGA die slice contained in an SSI device | | |
SMX | STS/MUCH-XYTER | Electronics | | | |
STAR | Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC | Experiment | An experiment at BNL | | |
STS | Silicon Tracking Station | Experiment | | | |
SSI | Stacked Silicon Interconnect (Technology) | Electronics | Multiple SLR components mounted on a passive Silicon Interposer. | | |
SW | Software | Programming | | | |
TDC | time-to-digital converter | Electronics | | | |
tDPB | Timing-DPB | Electronics | | | |
TDR | Technical Design Report | General | | | |
TOF | Time Of Flight Detector | Experiment | | | |
TOT | Time Over Threshold | Experiment | Corresponds to charge of a measured particle | | |
TRB | Trigger Readout Board | Electronics | | | |
TRB3 | Trigger Readout Board Version 3 | Electronics | | | |
TRD | Transition Radiation Detector | Experiment | | | |
TS | Timeslice | Experiment | | | |
TS | Timestamp | Experiment | | | |
TS MSB | Timestamp Most Significant Bit | Experiment | | | |
UrQMD | Ultra Relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics | Physics | | | |
VHDL | Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language | Programming | | | |
VLDB | Versatile Link Demonstrator Board | Electronics | | | |
VTRx | Versatile Link Transceiver | Electronics | | | |
XYTER | | Electronics | ASIC which has position(XY),time(T), energy(E) and resolution(R) | | |
ZIF | Zero Insertion Force (Connector) | Electronics | | | |