Section 8 Glossary
ACT 1. Application Configuration tool in PCM600
2. Trip status in IEC 61850
ANSI American National Standards Institute
CID Configured IED description
CMT Communication Management tool in PCM600
COMTRADE Common format for transient data exchange for power systems.
Defined by the IEEE Standard.
DHT Disturbance Handling tool in PCM600
DNP3 A distributed network protocol originally developed by
Westronic. The DNP3 Users Group has the ownership of the
protocol and assumes responsibility for its evolution.
EMC Electromagnetic compatibility
Ethernet A standard for connecting a family of frame-based computer
networking technologies into a LAN
EVT Event Viewer tool in PCM600
FTP File transfer protocol
GDE Graphical Display Editor in PCM600
GoCB GOOSE control block
GOOSE Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event
HMI Human-machine interface
HW Hardware
I/O Input/output
ICD IED capability description
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEC 61850 International standard for substation communication and
modeling
IED Intelligent electronic device
IET600 Integrated Engineering Toolbox
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