| ACRONYMS AT A GLANCE |
| A: ampere (amp) |
| ac: alternating current |
| A/D: analog-to-digital |
| ADC: analog-to-digital converter |
| ANSI: American National Standards Institute |
| ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASIC: application-specific integrated circuit |
| b: bit |
| B: byte |
| bps: bits per second |
| C: capacitance |
| CAN: Controller Area Network |
| CJC: cold junction compensation |
| CMRR: common-mode rejection ratio |
| COM: Component Object Model |
| CPU: central processing unit |
| CSMA/CD: carrier sense multiple access with collision detection |
| D/A: digital-to-analog |
| DAC: digital-to-analog converter |
| DAQ: data acquisition |
| DAS: data acquisition system |
| dB: decibel |
| dc: direct current |
| DCE: data communications equipment |
| DCOM: Distributed Component Object Model |
| DCS: distributed control system |
| DDE: Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DIO: digital input/output |
| DLL: Dynamic Link Library |
| DMA: direct memory access |
| DSP: digital signal processing |
| DTE: data terminal equipment |
| EEPROM: electrically erasable programmable ROM |
| EMF: electromotive force |
| EMI: electromagnetic interference |
| EPROM: erasable programmable ROM |
| FIFO: first-in first-out |
| GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus |
| GUI: graphical user interface |
| HMI: Human-machine interface |
| hz: hertz |
| I/O: input/output |
| i: current |
| IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| JTFA: joint time-frequency analysis |
| L: inductance |
| LED: light emitting diode |
| LSB: least significant bit |
| MAC: media access control |
| MFLOPS: million floating-point operations per second |
| MIPS: million instructions per second |
| MMI: man-machine interface |
| MUX: multiplexer |
| ODVA: Open DeviceNet Vendors Association |
| OLE: Object Linking and Embedding |
| OSI: Open Systems Interconnect |
| PC: personal computer |
| PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PGA: programmable gain amplifier |
| PID: proportional-integral-derivative |
| PLC: programmable logic controller |
| R: resistance |
| RFI: radio frequency interference |
| RMS: root-mean-square |
| ROM: read-only memory |
| RTD: resistance temperature detector |
| SCADA: supervisory control and data acquisition |
| SE: single-ended |
| S/H: sample-and-hold |
| SNR: signal-to-noise ratio |
| SPC: statistical process control |
| SQL: Structured Query Language |
| SS: simultaneous sampling |
| STP: shielded twisted pair |
| TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TTL: transistor-to-transistor logic |
| UTP: unshielded twisted pair |
| V: volt |