Glossary

A measure of transmission accuracy; the ratio of bits received in error to bits sent.

In capture mode, the PC receives data from a DUT via an N5102A digital signal interface module. The  IQ baseband data streams into the N5101A PCI card's DRAM, and can either be played to the 89601A VSA software or saved to the PC's hard disk drive. See also streaming and playback.

CLR is the execution engine for .NET Framework applications.

The CLS is a subset of the .NET common type system, a set of constructs and constraints to guide library writers and compiler writers that allows libraries to be fully usable from any language supporting the CLS, and for those languages to integrate with each other.

The CTS is a rich type system, built into the .NET common language runtime (CLR), that supports the types and operations found in most programming languages.

MSIL is the CPU-independent instructions set into which .NET Framework programs are compiled. It contains instructions for loading, storing, initializing, and calling methods and objects.

Using binary code, half of the largest possible number is assigned as the zero value. A positive integer is the absolute value added to the zero number and a negative integer is subtracted. Offset binary is popular in A/D and D/A conversions, but it is awkward for arithmetic computation.

In this case, the PC is the host computer where the N5101A PCI card and N5110B Baseband Studio for waveform capture and playback software resides.

A bus interface that is standard on most PC's.

In playback mode, captured or user-created data streams from the PC to a DUT via an N5102A digital signal interface module or an ESG/PSG. See also streaming and capture.

Streaming is a technique for transferring data such that it can be processed as a steady, continuous stream. Streaming allows data to be delivered as a continuous flow, with minimal delay before it can be used. See also playback and capture.

Using two's complement, Positive two's complement numbers are represented as simple binary. Negative two's complement numbers are represented as the binary number that when added to a positive number of the same magnitude equals zero.

To calculate the 2's complement of an integer, invert the binary equivalent of the number by changing all of the ones to zeroes and all of the zeroes to ones, and then add one.