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UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter.
µC Microcontrol unit (see MCU).
USB Universal Serial Bus
VCO Voltage-Controlled Oscillator; an oscillator whereby the frequency of
oscillation can be varied by changing a control voltage.
VCOB IC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Buffer IC
Vocoder VOice enCODER; the DSP-based system for digitally processing the
analog signals, includes the capabilities of performing voice
compression algorithms or voice encoding.
VOCON VOcoder/CONtroller board
VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio