- ISIS pulse: for a given target station, the delivery of a proton pulse
- Frame: the duration between pulses
- Status packet: a small packet containing status information that is syncronised between all digitisers/DAQs
- IBEX: UI for the new instrument control system
- EPICS: control system framework upon which the new instrment control system is built
- Digitiser: a rackmount unit containing 4 DAQs, baseboard and power supplies
- DAQ: an 8 channel data acquisition board, (incorrectly) referred to as a "digitiser" in most of this repository
- (Apache) Kafka: an event streaming platform
- Redpanda: an implementation of Apache Kafka, offering higher performance
- Google flatbuffers: a serialisation library
- HDF5: a hierarchical data file format
- NeXus: the de-facto data format for neutron and muon data, a schema on top of HDF5