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List of ieee 488 acronyms & abbreviations – Measurement Computing Personal488 rev.3.0 For DOS & Windows 3.Xi User Manual

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List of IEEE 488 Acronyms & Abbreviations

The following list of acronyms and abbreviations apply to IEEE 488:

OO

(bullet symbol) “and”

*

(asterisk symbol) “unasserted”

*CA

Not Controller Active mode

*SC

Not System Controller mode

ACG

Addressed Command Group

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

API

Application Program Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATN

Attention line

CA

Controller Active mode

CCL

Character Command Language

CMD

Bus Command interpretation

CTS

Clear To Send line

DAV

Data Valid line

DCD

Data Carrier Detect line

DCL

Device Clear bus command

DDE

Dynamic Data Exchange

DIO

Data Transfer (I/O) line

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DMM

Digital Multimeter

DSR

Data Set Ready line

DTR

Data Terminal Ready line

EOI

End-Or-Identify line

EOL

End-Of-Line terminator

GET

Group Execute Trigger bus command

GTL

Go To Local bus command

IEEE

Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

IFC

Interface Clear line

IOCTL

Input/Output Control

ist

Bus Device Individual Status

LAG

Listen Address Group bus command

LLO

Local Lock Out bus command

MLA

My Listen Address

MTA

My Talk Address

NDAC

Not Data Accepted line

NRFD

Not Ready For Data line

PPC

Parallel Poll Configure bus command

PPD

Parallel Poll Disable bus command

PPU

Parallel Poll Unconfig bus command

REN

Remote Enable line

RI

Ring Indicator line

RS

Revised Standard

rsv

Request for Service bit

RTS

Request To Send line

SC

System Controller mode

SCG

Secondary Command Group

SCPI

Standard Command for Programmable Instruments

SDC

Selected Device Clear bus command

SPD

Serial Poll Disable bus command

SPE

Serial Poll Enable bus command

SRQ

Service Request line

TAG

Talk Address Group bus command

TCT

Take Control bus command

UCG

Universal Command Group

UNL

Unlisten bus command

UNT

Untalk bus command