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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 335CAIBECANCARBCCDCCITTCDMACDPDCEBusCERDIPCISCCMOSCMR or CMRRCOCOBcodecCOPchemically assisted ion beam etchingController Area NetworkCalifornia Air Resource Boardcharge-coupled deviceConsultive Committee of the International Telephone andTelegraphcode division multiple access; spread spectrum method ofallowing multiple users to share the radio frequency spectrumby assigning each active user an individual codecellular digital packet data; wide area data network thattakes advantage of existing AMPS (U.S.) cellular networkby transmitting data packets on unused voice channels.Data is transmitted using RS (63, 47) at an effective rate of14 Kbit.consumer electronics busceramic DIPcomplex instruction set computer; standard computingapproach as compared to RISC architecturecomplementary metal oxide semiconductorcommon mode rejection (ratio); the ratio of the commonmodeinput voltage to output voltage commonly expressedin dBV, that is, the extent to which a differential amplifierrejects an output when the same signal is applied to bothinputscarbon monoxidechip on board; packaging technique for semiconductor diein multichip modulescode/decode; translates audio to digital signals and digitalback to audio signals, usually with an A/D and a D/Aconverterchip operating properly