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TP27, TP37 Equipment Manual
Release 01/00
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or dial for connection via ISDN (x.75, 64 kBit).
The abbreviations used in this equipment manual have the following
meaning:
AM Alarm Message
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AS511 Protocol of the PU interface to SIMATIC S5
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CPI Control Panel Interface
CPU Central Processing Unit
DIL Dual-In-Line (package)
DP Decentral Periphery
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DKM Direct Key Module
EM Event message
ESD Electrostatic Sensitive Device
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LED Light–Emitting Diode
MPI Multipoint Interface (SIMATIC S7)
PC
PLC
Personal Computer
Programmable Logic Controller
PU Programming Unit
PPI Point to Point Interface (SIMATIC S7)
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
STN Super Twisted Nematic
TFT Thin Film Transistor
TP Touch Panel
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
Abbreviations
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