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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FAT

File Allocation Table

FAX

FAcsimile

FBW

Fly By Wire

FC

Fibre Channel

FCC

Federal Communications Commission (Washington)

FCS

Frame Check Sequence

FD

Flexible (Floppy) Disk

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (ISO 9314)

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplex

FDX

Full DupleX

FEA

Finite Elements Analysis

FEC

Forward Error Correction

FEP

Front End Processor

FERAM

Ferro Electric Random Access Memory

FET

Field Effect Transistor

FEXT

Far End cross Talk

FFT

Fast Fourier Transform

FH/SS

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FHP

Fractional Horse Power (motor)

FHT

Fast Hartley Transform

FIFO

First In, First Out

FIP

Factory Information Protocol

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

FITL

Fiber In The Loop

FLAG

Fiber optic Link Around the Globe

FLC

Fuzzy Logic Control

FLOP

FLoating point OPeration

FLP

FLuorescent Panel

FM

Frequency Modulation

FOB

Free On Boards

FOIRL

Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link (Ethernet - IEEE 802.3c .3d)

FOR

Forced Output Rate

FORTRAN

FORmula TRANslator

FOT

Fiber Optic Transceiver

FP

Flat Pack (SMD)

FP

Function Points

FPD

Flat Panel Display

FPDI

Flat Panel Display Interface

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array

FPU

Floating Point Unit

FR

Frame Relay

FRAD

Frame Relay Access Device

FSK

Frequency Shift Keying

FT1

Fractional T1

FTAM

File Transfer, Access and Management

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FTP

Foiled Twisted Pair (ScTP)

FTTC

Fiber To The Curb

FTTH

Fiber To The Home

FTZ

Fernmelde Technischen Zentralamt (Darmstadt)

FWHM

Full-Width at Half Maxima

FYI

For Your Information