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LSB
- Least Significant Byte
MATLAB®
- Matrix Laboratory, a numerical computing environ-
ment and programming language
MHz
- Megahertz (one million hertz)
mm
- millimeter
OEM
- Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS
- Operating System
PCI
- Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI
Express
(PCIe or PCI-E) - An I/O interconnect bus standard
that expands on and doubles the data transfer rates of original PCI
PCR
- PCI Configuration Registers
PnP
- Plug and Play
PXI
- PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation, a modular instrumenta-
tion platforms
SCADA
- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
TTL
- Transistor-Transistor Logic, digital circuits built from bipolar
junction transistors and resistors.
V
- Volt, a derived unit of electrical potential difference
VDC
- Volts of Continuous Current
VEE™
- Visual Engineering Environment, a visual and dataflow
programming language and development environment
X86
- A generic term that refers to the CISC (complex instruction
set computer) architecture, the most commercially successful cen-
tral processing unit (CPU) architecture in modern computing.
