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Appendix B

Glossary of Acronyms

AC ... Alternating Current

ALICE ... A Large Ion Collider Experiment

ASDBLR ... Amplifier-Shaper-Discriminator with Base-Line Restoration

ASIC ... Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

ASTRAL ... analogue-digital ASIC containing the ASDBLR and the DTMROC

ALEPH ... Apparatus for LEP PHysics

ATLAS ... A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS

AWG ... American Wire Gauge

BER ... Bit Error Rate

BiCMOS ... combined Bipolar and CMOS technology

BNL ... Brookhaven National Laboratory

BC ... Bunch Crossing

CERN ... Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

CMOS ... Complementary-Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMS ... Compact Muon Solenoid

DC ... Direct Current

DELPHI ... DEtector with Lepton, Photon, and Hadron Identification

DMILL ... radiation-hard BiCMOS process of TEMIC

DTMROC ... Drift-Time Measurement ReadOut Chip

EM ... ElectroMagnetic

EMC ... ElectroMagnetic Compatibility

EMI ... ElectroMagnetic Interference

FEB ... Front-End Board

HV ... High Voltage

L1A ... Level-1 Accept

L3 ... LEP Experiment

LAr ... Liquid Argon

LED ... Light-Emitting Diode

LEP ... Large Electron Positron collider

LHC ... Large Hadron Collider

LHCb ... Large Hadron Collider Beauty

LV ... Low Voltage

LVDS ... Low-Voltage Differential Signal

OPAL ... Omni Purpose Apparatus for LEP

PC ... Printed Circuit

PCB ... Printed Circuit Board

PP ... Patch Panel

PPB ... Patch Panel for Barrel

PPF ... Patch Panel for end-cap (Forward)

PS ... Proton Synchrotron

PSpice ... SPICE software of ORCAD

RMS ... Root Mean Square

ROB ... ReadOut Buffer

ROD ... ReadOut Driver

ROI ... Regions of Interest

SCT ... Semiconductor Tracker

SI ... Signal Integrity

SPICE ... Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis

SPS ... Super Proton Synchrotron

STP ... Shielded Twisted Pair

TDR ... Technical-Design Report

TRT ... Transition Radiation Tracker

TTC ... Trigger, Timing, and Control distribution module

TTL ... Transistor-transistor logic

UA ... Underground Area

USA ... Underground Service Area

UTP ... Unshielded Twisted Pair

VME ... VersaModule Eurocard bus