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P
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect—a high-performance expansion bus
architecture originally developed by Intel to replace ISA and EISA; offers
a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 132 Mbytes/s and is achieving
widespread acceptance as a standard for PCs and work-stations
pF
picofarad—one-trillionth of a farad
ppm
parts per million
R
rms
root mean square—the square root of the average value of the square of the
instantaneous signal amplitude; a measure of signal amplitude
S
SE
single-ended—a term used to describe an analog input that is measured
with respect to a common ground
signal conditioning
the manipulation of signals to prepare them for digitizing; electronic
equipment that makes transducer or other signals suitable in level and range
to be transmitted over a distance, or to interface with voltage input
instruments
T
transducer
a device that responds to a physical stimulus (heat, light, sound, pressure,
motion, flow, and so on), and produces a corresponding electrical signal
V
V
volts
VDC
volts direct current
V
volts
rms
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