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Glossary
A
AC
A
lternating
C
urrent
ARP
A
ddress
R
esolution
P
rotocol: Network protocol
ASDU
A
pplication
S
ervice
D
ata
U
nit
B
Big-Endian format
The most significant byte is stored first, that is at the memory location with
the lowest address.
Boot Application
Starting a device with the firmware required for the microcontroller
Broadcast message
Message in the network where data packets are transmitted to all devices
on the network from one point
C
Client
Device in the communication network that sends data requests or com-
mands to the server devices and receives responses from them
CRC error
C
yclic
R
edundancy
C
heck: The cyclic redundancy check is a method of de-
termining a test value for data (e.g. for data transmission in computer net-
works) with the purpose to detect errors during the transmission or
duplication of data.
D
DC
D
irect
C
urrent
DHCP
D
ynamic
H
ost
C
onfiguration
P
rotocol enables the network configuration to
be assigned to the devices by a DHCP server
DSP
D
igital
S
ignal
P
rocessor
DST
D
aylight
S
aving
T
ime
E
Ethernet
Cable-based data network technology for local data networks
F
FW
F
irm
w
are: Program code for execution in a microcontroller
G
Gateway
Enables networks based on different protocols to communicate with each
other
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