Preface
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TP 070 Equipment Manual
Release 03/00
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Abbreviations
The abbreviations used in this equipment manual have the following meaning:
CCFL Cold Cathode Fluorescence Lamp
CPU Central Processing Unit
ESD Electrostatic Sensitive Device
HMI Human Machine Interface
IF Interface
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
MPI Multipoint Interface (SIMATIC S7)
PC Personal Computer
PLC Programmable Logic Control
PPI Point to Point Interface (SIMATIC S7)
PU Programming Unit
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
STN Super Twisted Nematic
TP Touch Panel
A list of all the specialist terms together with their explanations is provided in the
glossary at the end of this manual.