EVLA Acronym List

A B C

A

Acronym	Meaning
ACU	Antenna Control Unit
ALC	Automatic Level Control
AOC	Array Operations Center (now DSOC)

B

Acronym	Meaning
BlB	Baseline Board

C

Acronym	Meaning
CASA	Common Astronomy Software Applications
CBE	Correlator BackEnd
CDL	Central Development Laboratory
CM	Configuration Mapper
CMIB	Correlator Module Interface Board
CMP	Control and Monitor Processor
CPCC	Power Control Correlator Computer
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check

D E F

D

Acronym	Meaning
DCAF	Data Capture and Format
DDS	Direct Digital Synthesizer
DiFX	Distributed FX software correlator used for VLBA
DMTV	Delay Module Test Vector
DSOC	Domenici Science Operations Center
DTS	Digital Transmission System
FFT	Fast Fourier Transform
FPGA	Field Programmable Gate Array
FRM	Focus Rotation Mount

E

Acronym	Meaning
ECSO	EVLA Commissioning Staff Observing

F

Acronym	Meaning
FET	Field Effect Transistor

G H I

G

Acronym	Meaning
GBT	Green Bank Telescope

H

Acronym	Meaning

I

Acronym	Meaning
IDCAF	interim Data Capture and Format
IPT	Integrated Product Team

J K L

J

Acronym	Meaning

K

Acronym	Meaning

L

Acronym	Meaning
LCP	Left Circular Polarization
LNA	Low Noise Amplifier
LO	Local Oscillator

M N O

M

Acronym	Meaning
MCAF	Metadata Capture and Formatting
MCCC	Master Correlator Control Computer
MIB	Module Interface Board

N

Acronym	Meaning
NGAS	Next Generation Archive Server
NIC	Network Interface Card

O

Acronym	Meaning
OPT	Observation Preparation Tool
OSRO	Open Shared Risk Observing
OTS	On-the sky
OMT	Ortho mode Transducer

P Q R

P

Acronym	Meaning
PST	Proposal Submission Tool

Q

Acronym	Meaning

R

Acronym	Meaning
RSRO	Resident Shared Risk Observing
RFI	Radio Frequency Interference
RTCAT	Real-time Calibrator Analysis Tool
RXP	Retiming, Crossbar & Phasing

S T U

S

Acronym	Meaning
SBC	Single Board Computer
SDM	Science Data Model
SEFD	System Equivalent Flux Density
SLC	Serial Line Controller
StB	Station Board

T

Acronym	Meaning
TelCal	Telescope Calibration

U

Acronym	Meaning

V W X

V

Acronym	Meaning
VCI	Virtual Correlator Interface
VEX	VLBI EXchange (observation description file format)
VLA	Very Large Array
VLBA	Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI	Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VME	Virtual Machine Environment
VPN	Virtual Private Network

W

Acronym	Meaning
WIC	WIDAR Insanity Confirmation
WIDAR	Wideband Interferometric Digital ARchitecture

X

Acronym	Meaning
XML	eXtensible Markup Language

Y Z

Y

Acronym	Meaning
YIG	Yttrium Iron Garnet

Z

Acronym	Meaning