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Acronyms

13-4 Sept. 2008 DRAFT EFW INST+SOC PDR

• 3D Three-Dimensional• A-D Analog-to-Digital• ADC Analog-to-Digital Conversion or Converter• APL Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory• AXB Axial Boom• BCR Budget Change Request• BEB Boom Electronics Board• BOL Beginning of Life• BOT Beginning-of-Travel• CAM Control Account Manager• CBE Current Best Estimate• CDI Command and Data Interface• CDRL Contract Deliverables Requirements List• CE Conducted Emissions• CG "Center of Gravity (technically, Center of Mass)"• CMRR Common-Mode Rejection Ratio• ConOps Concept of Operations• CPT Comprehensive Performance Test• CPU Central Processing Unit• CRRES Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite• CS Conducted Susceptibility• CTE Coefficient of Thermal Expansion• DAC Digital-to-Analog Conversion or Converter• DAD Deploy Assist Device• DCB Data Controller Board• DDD Deep-Dielectric Discharge• DFB Digital Fields Board• DMA Direct Memory Access• DSP Digital Signal Processing• EEE "Electronic, Electrical and Electromechanical parts"• EFW Electric Field and Waves• E-GSE Electrical GSE• ELF Extremely-Low Frequency (30-300 Hz)• EM Engineering Model (also ETU)• EME Electromagnetic Engineering (also EMI/EMC/ESC)• EMFISIS Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite with Integrated Science• EMI/EMC Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility• EMIC Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron• EOL End of Life• EOT End-of-Travel• ESC Electrostatic Cleanliness• ESD Electrostatic Discharge• ESIC Electrostatic Ion Cyclotron• ETM Environmental Test Matrix• ETU Engineering Test Unit (also EM)• EVM Earned Value Management

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• FAST FAST Auroral Snapshot Explorer (satellite)• FEM Finite-Element Model• FOS Factor-of-Safety• FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array• FSW Flight Software• GIDEP Government-Industry Data Exchange Program • GSE Ground Support Equipment• I&T Integration and Test• I/F Interface• ICD Interface Control Document• IDPU Instrument Data Processing Unit• I-PDR Instrument PDR• IRD Instrument Requirements Document• KAW Kinetic Alfven Wave• LASP "Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder"• LOS Line-of-Sight• LPT Limited Performance Test• LVDS ???• LVPS Low-Voltage Power Supply• MDR Mission Design Review (also SRMDR)• M-GSE Mechanical GSE• MHD Magnetohydrodynamics• MLAT Magnetic Latitude• MLT Magnetic Local Time• MOC Mission Operations Center• MOI Moment of Inertia• MPDR Mission PDR• MRD Mission Requirements Document• NTE Not To Exceed• PCB Power Control Board; Printed Circuit Board; Parts Control Board.• PDR Preliminary Design Review• PDT Pacific Daylight Time [GMT-8h]• PER Pre-Environmental Review• PER Pre-Environmental Review• PFR Problem/Failure Report• PI Principal Investigator• PM Project Manager• PO Purchase Order• PSR Pre-Ship Review• PWA Printed Wiring Assembly• PWB Printed Wiring Board (also PCB)• QA Quality Assurance (also SMA)

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• RBSP Radiation Belt Storm Probes• RE Radiated Emissions• RFA Request for Action• RGA Residual Gas Analyzer• RPM revolutions per minute• RS Radiated Susceptibility• SAMPEX Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer • SC Spacecraft (also S/C)• SDP Software Development Plan• SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory• SE System Engineer• SEE Single Event Effect• SFR Swept-Frequency Receiver• SMA Safety and Mission Assurance• SOC Science Operations Center• SOC RD SOC Requirements Document• SOH State-of-Health (also HSK)• SPB Spin Plane Boom• SRAM Static Random Access Memory• SRB Standing Review Board• SRMDR System Requirements and Mission Design Review (also MDR)• SSL Space Sciences Laboratory• SW Software• SWG Science Working Group• TBD To Be Determined• TBR To Be Reviewed• THD Total Harmonic Distortion• THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (satellite)• TID Total Ionizing Dose• TM Telemetry• TVAC Thermal-Vacuum• UCB University of California, Berkeley• ULF Ultra-Low Frequency (< 30 Hz)• UMN University of Minnesota• VLF Very-Low Frequency (3-30 kHz)

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