GE Industrial Solutions Control System Toolbox For an AV-300i Version 2 Drive - Manual (Page 69)

GEH-6412 Toolbox for AV-300i Version 2 Drive Glossary of Terms •••• G-1
Glossary of Terms
AcDcEx2000
Refers to the dc drives (DC2000), ac drives (AC2000), and exciters (EX2000), which
are all referenced in the combined device type name. These three devices can use the
same application control boards and devices in the toolbox.
ACL controller
Application Control Layer controller. A form of the Innovation Series controller
hosted in the Innovation Series drive rack that performs job specific, outer layer,
drive control loops and sequencing.
application code
Software that controls specific machines or processes.
ARCNET
Attached Resource Computer Network. A LAN communications protocol developed
by Datapoint Corporation. The physical (coax and chip) and datalink (token ring and
board interface) layer of a 2.5 MHz communication network which serves as the
basis for DLAN+. See DLAN+.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An 8-bit code used for data.
attributes
Information, such as location, visibility, and type of data that sets something apart
from others. In signals, an attribute can be a field within a record.
automatically named signals
Signals that are created as a result of inserting some instruction block(s) other than a
Signal Definition. One or more regions of such signals is of the form }00123.
baud
A unit of data transmission. Baud rate is the number of bits per second transmitted.
bind
The act of retrieving configuration information from some system database.