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| Term | Explanation |
| 4wire | 1 physically separate 2-wire loop for each transmission direction - otherwise in full-duplex both transmission directions use the same physical 2-wire loop (as in modem) |
| <= | less than or equal to |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| asm | assembler (as in code) |
| b/s | bits per second (so kb/s is kilo-bits/sec) |
| Bell | interoperability standards for modems prevalent in the USA - eg Bell 202 |
| BER | Bit Error Rate (or error rate, as in modem data transmission) |
| BW | bandwidth |
| byte | an 8-bit memory element |
| Caller ID | Caller IDentification (as in telephone dialling) |
| CID | |
| Error Rate | for example "10-6 error rate" means 1 data bit in every 1000000 data bits in error on average (as in modem data transmission) |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| fixed-point | use of integer arithmetic and program/data storage (as in fixed-point processor) |
| full-duplex | transmission and reception in both directions simultaneously (as in modem) |
| half-duplex | transmission or reception in one direction only at a time but capability of either (as in modem) |
| ITU | International Telegraph Union: body which sets interoperability standards for eg telephone modems - V.xx designations - and speech/audio coders - G.xxx standards |
| k | kilo |
| MIPS | Millions-of-Instructions-per-Second: unit of DSP/micro-processor processing power |
| re-entrant | the same routine call can be used to process multiple instances of a function |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| word | a 16-bit integer value or "short int" in C vernacular (as in program or data memory) |
