ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ACIS
ACNET
ADC
ADO
AGS
AI
ALS
ANL
API
APS
ARP
ATMAUS
BCD
BEPC
BESSY
BINS
BNL
BPM
BSD
BURT
CAD/CAM
CAL
CAMAC
CAN
CAS
CASE
CDEV
CDF
CDS
CEBAF
CECIL
CERN
CICERO
CIM
CLC
CORBA
COSY
CPS
DAC
DANTE
DAQ
DAQ
DBMS
DCE
DCM
DDS

Access Control Interlock System (APS)
Accelerator Control NETwork (FNAL)
Analog to Digital Converter
Accelerator Device Object (RHIC)
Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (BNL)
Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Light Source (LBL)
Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago)
Application Program Interface
Advanced Photon Source (ANL)
Address Resolution Protocal
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Accelerator Utility System (IHEP, Protvino)Beam Coordination Diagram (CPS)
Beijing Electron-Positron Collider
Berliner ElektronenSpeicherring-gesellschaft fur
SYnchrotronstrahlung (Berlin electron laboratory for synchrotron
radiation)
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (Long Island, NY)
Beam Position Monitor
Berkeley Software Distribution
Back Up Restore Tool
Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAN Application Layer
Standard crate, module and backplane system
Controller Area Network (Automobile bus system)
Central Alarm Server (CERN)
Computer Aided Software Engineering
Common DEVice or Control DEVice
Collider Detector at Fermilab
Control and Data System
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility(Newport News, VA)
Common EPICS CAN Interface Layer
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (ex-Centre
European pour le Research Nucleaire)
Control Information system Concepts based on Encapsulated
Real-time Objects (CERN)
Computer Integrated Manufacture
Console-Level Computers (RHIC)
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Cooler Synchrotron (Juelich, Germany)
CERN PS
Digital to Analog Converter
DAphne New Tools Environmant (Frascati)
Data AcQuisition board (CERN)
Data AcQuisition System (LBL)
DataBase Management System
Distributed Computing Environment
Direct Communication Module (Allen Bradley)
Direct Digital Synthesis

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DESY
DIC
DIO
DSC
DSP
DTM
ECA
ECR
EIU
EPA
EPAC
EPCS
EPICS
EPLD
EPS
ESO
ESOC
ESRF
EU
FDDI
FEC
FNAL
FPGA
FSM
GANIL
GPIB
GSI
GUI
HCI
HEP
HERA
HIRFL
HMI
HVAC
ICALEPCS
ICMP
ICRR
ID
IDC
IDT
IHEP
ILC
ILL
I/O or IO
IOC
IPDigital Equipment Corporation
Deutches Electronen SYnchrotron (Hamburg)
Device Interface Computer (PAL)
Digital Input/Output
Device Stub Controller
Digital Signal Processor
Distributed Table Manager (CERN)
Equipment Control Assembly (CERN)Electron Cyclotron Resonance (Ion Source)
Equipment Interface Unit (ELETTRA)
Electron-Positron Accumulator (CERN)
European Particle Accelerator Conference
Experimental Physics Control Systems (Interdivisional
Group of EPS)
Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Electrically Programmable Logic Devices
European Physical Society
European Space Organisation or European Southern Observatory
European Space Operations Centre
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
European Union
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Front End Computer
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Finite State Machine
Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourdes (Heavy IonAccelerator, Caen, France)
General Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE-488)
Gesellschaft fuer SchwerIonenforschung (Heavy Ion ResearchLaboratory, Darmstadt, Germany)
Graphical User Interface
Human Computer Interface (CERN)High Energy Physics
Hadron-Elektron Ring Anlage (proton and electron colliding
rings, DESY)
Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzou (China)
Hahn-Meitner-Institut (Berlin)
High Voltage Alternating Current or Heating, Ventilation andAir Conditioning
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental
Physics Control Systems
Internet Control Message Protocol
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (Japan)
Insertion Device
Intelligent Device Controller (BINS)Interface Development Tool
Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino Russia andBeijing, China)
Intelligent Local Cotnroller
Institut Laue Langevin (Grenoble)
Input/Output
Input/Output Controller
Internet Protocol or Industry Pack

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ISAS
ISN
ISO
ISR
ISS
KEK
KFA
KEKB
KFTILANLAMPFLANLLANSCE
LBL
LCR
LEAR
LEP
LHC
LIL
LINAC
LPC
MAD
MAP
MBS
MCR
MEDM
MEPHI
Mil-1553
MMI
MPX
MRTI
MTG
NAO
NC
NFS
NIKHEF
NIRS
NODAL
NSLS
OAT
ODBC
ODBMS
ODS
OLE
OO
OOD
OODB
OOP
OOT
OPI
OS

InterProcess Communication
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)
Institut des Sciences Nucleaires (Grenoble)
International Standards Organization
Interrupt Service Routine
Instrumentation SubSystem (PSR)
National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (Japan)
KernForschungsAnlage (Nuclear Research Laboratory,Juelich, Germany)
KEK B-Factory
Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (Ukraine)
Local Area Network
Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos Neutron Science CEntre
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley, CA)
Local Control Room
Low Energy Antiproton Ring (CERN)
Large Electron-Positron collider (CERN)
Large Hadron Collider (proposed, CERN)LEP Injector Linac (CERN)
LINear ACcelerator
Local Process Controller (ELETTRA)
Methodical Accelerator Design program
Manufacturing Automation Program
Message Broadcasting System
Main Control Room,
Motif Editor/Display Manager
Moscow state Engineering PHysics Institute
MIL/STD-1553B serial field bus
Man-Machine Interface
MultiPleX system (CERN)
Moscow RadioTechnical Institute
Master Timing Generator
National Astronomical Observatory (Japan)
Network Compiler (CERN) or Numerically Controlled
Network File System
National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
National Institute of Radiological Sciences (Chiba, Japan)
NOrsk Data Accelerator Language (CERN)National Synchrotron Light Source (BNL)
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy)
Open DataBase Connectivity (KEK)
Object DataBase Management System
Open Database Services (KEK)
Object Linking & Embedding
Object Oriented
Object Oriented Design
Object Oriented DataBase
Object Oriented Paradigm
Object Oriented Technology
OPerator Interface
Operating System

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OSF
OSI
PAC
PAL
PC
PCA
PHIGS
PID
PLC
PS
PSB
PSI
PSR
PSS
PV
RDBMS
REMOT
RHIC
RISC
RMON
RPC
RTP
SA/SD
SCC
SCI
SCMPSDDS
SDFD
SFC
SLAC
SLC
SNL
SNMP
SOSH
SPring-8
SPS
SQA
SQLSR
SRRCSSC
SSRL
STAR
SVVP
TCP/IP
TCR
TDM
TESLA
TNG
TOD
TPC
TRINITI

Open Database Services
Open Systems Foundation
Open Interconnection Standard
Particle Accelerator Conference
Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (Korea) or Programmable
Array Logic
Personal Computer (usually IBM or clone)
Process Control Assembly (CERN)
Programmer’s Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
Proportional, Integral and Differential Controller
Programmable Logic Controller
Proton Synchrotron
PS Booster (CERN)Paul Scherrer Institut (Villigen, CH)
Proton Storage Ring (LAMPF)
Personnel Safety System (APS)
Process Variable
Relational DataBase Management System
Remote Experiment MOnitoring and conTrol (EU Project)
Relativistic Heavy Ion Accelerator (BNL)
Reduced Instruction Set Computing
Remote MONitoring protocol
Remote Process Call
Real-Time Protocol (Internet)
Structured Analysis/Structured Design
Spring-8 Control Command
Simple CAN Interface
Software Configuration Management Plan
Self Describing Data Sets (ANL)
Self Describing File Protocol (ANL)
Sector-Focussing Cyclotron
Stanford Linear ACcelerator (Stanford, CA)
SLAC Linear Collider
State Notation Language
Simple Network Management Protocol
SOftware SHaring
Super Photon ring 8GeVSuper Proton Synchrotron (CERN)
Software Quality Assurance
Structured Query Language
Synchrotron Rariation
Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (Taiwan)
Separate-Sector Cyclotron
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Solenoidal Tracks at RHIC
Software Verification and Validation Plan
Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Technical Control Room (CERN)
Time Division Multiplex
TEv Superconducting Linear Accelerator (DESY and others)
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (La Palma)
Time of Day
Time Projection Chamber (RHIC)
TRoitsk INstitute for Innovation and Thermonuclear

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TRIUMF
TSS
UCS
UDP
UIDS
UIMS
UMMI
VEPP
VLAN
VLTVME
VMEbus
VMS
VUV
VXI
WAN
WIMPWYSIWYG
WSSWWW
XUIMS

Investigations (Russia)
Transposable Ring Intersecting STorage Accelerator in Nippon(KEK electron-positron collider)
TRI-University Meson facility (Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada)
Telescope Software System (TNG)
Utility Control System (IHEP, Protvino)
User Datagram Protocol
User Interface Development System
User Interface Management System
Uniform Man Machine Interface
Electron-Positron Collider (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Virtual Local Area Network
Very Large Telescope (ESO)
Versa Module European (Crate, module & backplane)
Often used for VME. Not just the VME backplanes.
Virtual Memory System (DEC)Vacuum Ultra-Violet
VME EXtension for Instrumentation
Wide Area Network
Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer Interface
What You See Is What You Get
Workstation Software System (TNG)
World-Wide Web
X-Windows User Interface Management System (CERN)