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Section 11. Glossary
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Asynchronous
Acceptedabbreviationfor"gauge."AWGistheacceptedunitwhen
identifyingwirediameters.LargerAWGvaluesindicatesmallercross‐
sectionaldiameterwires.SmallerAWGvaluesindicatelarge‐diameter
wires.Forexample,a14AWGwireisoftenusedforgroundingbecause
itcancarrylargecurrents.22AWGwireisoftenusedassensorleads
sinceonl
ytinycurrentsarecarriedwhenmeasurementsaremade.
baudrate
Thespeedoftransmissionofinformationacrossaserialinterface.
Beacon
AsignalbroadcastedtootherdevicesinaPakBus®networktoidentify
"neighbor"devices.AbeaconinaPakBus®networkensuresthatall
devicesinthenetworkareawareofotherdevicesthatareviable.If
configuredtodoso,aclock‐setcommandmaybetransmittedwiththe
beacon.Thisf
unctioncanbeusedtosynchronizetheclocksofdevices
withinthePakBus®network.SeealsoPakBus
(p.438)andneighbordevice
(p.436).
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binary
Describesdatarepresentedbyaseriesofzerosandones.Alsodescribes
thestateofaswitch,eitherbeingonoroff.
BOOL8
Aone‐bytedatatypethathold8bits(0or1)ofinformation.BOOL8
useslessspacethan32‐bitBOOLEANdatatype.
Boolean
Namegivenafunction,theresultofwhichiseithertrueorfalse.
Booleandatatype
Typicallyusedforflagsandtorepresentconditionsorhardwarethat
haveonlytwostates(trueorfalse)suchasflagsandcontrolports.
Booleandatatype
Referstoaburstofmeasurements.Analogoustoaburstoflight,a
burstofmeasurementsisintense,suchthatitfeaturesaseriesof
measurementsinrapidsuccession,andisnotcontinuous.