The preliminary version of documentation of the format for the interchange of calibrated optical/IR data being developed by Tom Pauls of NRL and John Young of COAST was presented and a number of issues discussed. The proposed format is in the general form of a relational database with different components stored in FITS binary tables. ... Should there be a single data table type that includes all data types, or multiple table types, one per data type? What data types are needed? ...

... The design employs a differential structure. ... The input is adapted to 100 differential, and the outputs use standard Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS). ... T/H SINGLE T/H Single Input T/H Single Output 1.35 0.15 0.2 T/H DIFFERENTIAL Input T/H Output T/H 0.1 1.3 0.05 volts volts Figure 5: Digital part and digital gate 0 1.25 -0.05 -0.1 1.2 Integrated Test System A test system is integrated on chip to evaluate the transmission to the data acquisition card (fig: 7). ...