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Glossary
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange - a character
encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.
DC
Direct Current
DE-9
A 9 pin D shaped connector commonly used for serial communications
on computers.
PSU
Power Supply Unit
ROV
Remotely Operated Vehicle
RS232
Traditional name for a series of standards for serial binary data control
signals.
RS485
A standard for defining the electrical characteristics of drivers and
receivers for use in a balanced digital multipoint system (also known
as EIA-485).
RX
Receive (data)
SCU
Surface Control Unit - a specially manufactured computer which is
rack mountable and capable of processing the data from the sonar
equipment running either Windows® XP Embedded or Windows® 7
and Seanet Pro or Gemini software.
SeaHub
An alternative to using a Seanet SCU, this device connects to a laptop
or PC via USB interface, essentially this takes the signal from the sonar
(in RS232, RS485 or ARCNET) and converts it into a signal suitable
for the USB port of the computer.
TX
Transmit (data)
USB
Universal Serial Bus.
