Software Defined Radio: Baseband Technologies for 3G Handsets and Basestations

Abbreviations

In addition to the glossary below of abbreviations and acronyms used in this book, a comprehensive set of definitions and other useful resources may be found online at http://www.umts-forum.org/glossary.asp and at www.softwaredefinedradio.org

2G	2nd Generation cellular mobile systems, refers to the digital systems such as GSM, DAMPS and IS-95
3G	3rd Generation cellular mobile systems, refers to the evolving UMTS, cdma2000, and TD-SCDMA standards within the ITU-R family of 3G standards
3GPP	3rd Generation Partnership Project – see www.3GPP.org
4G	Fourth Generation Wireless, often referred to as Beyond 3G, or B3G
A/D	Analog-to-Digital converter
ACELP	Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction
ACLR	Adjacent Channel Leakage power Ratio
ACM	Adaptive Computing Machine
ACS	Add-Compare-Select
ACSU	Add-Compare-Select Unit
ADC	Analogue-to-Digital Converter
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AFC	Automatic Frequency Control
AGC	Automatic Gain Control
AGU	Address Generation Unit
AHB	Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB), a standardized bus system for SoC, developed by ARM Ltd
AIS	Air Interface Standard
AKA	Authentication and Key Agreement
ALU	Arithmetic Logic Unit
ALU-PAE	XPP Element containing an ALU object
AM	Amplitude Modulation
AML	Application Module Library
AMPP	Altera Megafunction Partners Program
AMPS	American Mobile Phone Standard, a first-generation analog mobile phone standard
AMR	Adaptive Multi Rate speech coder
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