Blue Flower

 

FAQ

Acronyms

 

DAQ

Data Acquisition

 

 

DDL

Detector Data Link

SIU

Source Interface Unit

DIU

Destination Interface Unit

RORC

Read-Out Receiver Card

D-RORC 

DAQ-RORC, DDL-RORC (i.e. in ALICE)

 

 

S-LINK

Simple Link Interface 

LSC 

Link Source Card 

LDC 

Link Destination Card 

ODIN 

Optical Dual G-LINK

(an S-LINK LSC implementation)

HOLA

High-speed Optical Link for ATLAS

(an S-LINK LSC implementation)

FILAR

Four Input Link for ATLAS Readout

FEMB

Front-end Motherboard

ROMB

Read-out Motherboard

 

 

SFP

Small Form Factor Pluggable

QSFP

Quad Small Form Factor Plugable 

 

 

CERN

Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

(European Council for Nuclear Research)

a.k.a. European Laboratory for Particle Physics

LHC

Large Hadron Collider 

ALICE 

A Large Ion Collider Experiment 

ATLAS 

A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (experiment)

CMS 

Compact Muon Solenoid (experiment)

SHINE 

SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment 

 

 

Wigner RCP

(WRCP, WFK)

Wigner Research Centre of Physics

of the Hungarian Academy of Science

 

 

BNL 

Brookhaven National Laboratory 

STAR 

Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC  (experiment)