ABB REF615 - Section 12 Glossary

Section 12 Glossary
100BASE-FX A physical media defined in the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
standard for local area networks (LANs). 100BASE-FX
uses fibre-optic cabling.
100BASE-TX A physical media defined in the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
standard for local area networks (LANs). 100BASE-TX
uses twisted-pair cabling category 5 or higher with RJ-45
connectors.
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BI Binary input
BI/O Binary input/output
BO Binary output
CB Circuit breaker
CBB Cycle building block
CPU Central processing unit
CT Current transformer
DNP 3.0 A distributed network protocol originally developed by
Westronic. The DNP3 Users Group has the ownership of
the protocol and assumes responsibility for its evolution.
DT Definite time
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EMC Electromagnetic compatibility
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
GOOSE Generic Object Oriented Substation Event
HMI Human-machine interface
HW Hardware
IDMT Inverse definite minimum time
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEC 60870-5-103 Communication standard for protective equipment. A
serial master/slave protocol for point-to-point
communication.
IEC 61850 International standard for substation communication and
modelling.
Section 12
Glossary
REF615 229
Application Manual