AIS Baseband Processor
CMX910
RAM
RF
Random Access Memory.
Radio Frequency.
RSSI
Rx
Received Signal Strength Indicator.
Receive or Receiver
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface, a common inter-chip serial communications interface.
Self Organised TDMA, the channel access scheme used by AIS Class A.
Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator.
SOTDMA
TCXO
TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access, a technique for sharing access to a radio channel by
dividing it into different time slots.
Tx
Transmit or Transmitter
UTC
Universal Time (Coordinated), the official measure of time in the world. Kept in
synchronisation with the earth’s rotation by the introduction of occasional leap seconds.
VHF
Very High Frequency, ITU band 8 (30 – 300MHz) that includes the maritime mobile band.
Very thin profile Quad Flat No lead, an IC package type.
VQFN
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