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Glossary
16-Bit Linear PCM
A
ABR
AC
ADC
AES/EBU
Amplify
Analog-to-Digital
Ancillary Data
ANMS
APL
ASCII
Asymmetric
An audio encoding format in which 16 bits of data for each sample are used with
Pulse Code Modulation (PCM).
Amps
Audio Broadcast Receiver
Alternating Current
Analog-to-Digital Converter
Acronym for Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcast Union and their
standard for digital audio interfaces.
To strengthen audio signals that have become weaker during processing.
A device that converts an analog signal to a digital signal.
Ancillary data is nonaudio data that is processed by the DAC700. Ancillary data
has three components: relay blocks, network control message blocks, and user
data blocks. For more detail, see the definitions for each of the components.
Audio Network Management System (ComStream proprietary)
Average Program Level
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
A compression technique that requires intensive processing on the compression
end, but little processing on the decompression end.
AUX
Auxiliary
bps
Bits per second
BPSK
Buffered
Bi-Phase Shift Keying
Placed in a temporary storage location before being sent or received.
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