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Glossary
Symbol Prefix Value
nnano10
–9
micro 10
–6
m milli 10
–3
k kilo 10
3
A
Aamperes
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
C
CCelsius
D
DI digital input
DMA direct memory access—A method by which data can be transferred
to/from computer memory from/to a device or memory on the bus
while the processor does something else. DMA is the fastest method
of transferring data to/from computer memory.
DO digital output