GLOSSARY

special-purpose memory

A partition of memory used for storing the interrupt

 

 

vectors, PTS vectors, chip configuration bytes, and

 

 

several reserved locations.

standard interrupt

Any maskable interrupt that is assigned to the

 

 

interrupt controller for processing by an interrupt

 

 

service routine.

state time (or state)

The basic time unit of the microcontroller; the

 

 

combined period of the two internal timing signals,

 

 

PH1 and PH2. Because the microcontroller can

 

 

operate at many frequencies, this manual defines time

 

 

requirements in terms of state times rather than in

 

 

specific units of time.

successive approximation

An A/D conversion method that uses a binary search

 

 

to arrive at the best digital representation of an analog

 

 

input.

t

Lowercase “t” represents the period of the internal

 

 

clock.

temperature coefficient

Change in the stated variable for each degree

 

 

Centigrade of temperature change.

temperature drift

The change in a specification due to a change in

 

 

temperature. Temperature drift can be calculated by

 

 

using the temperature coefficient for the specification.

terminal-based characteristic

An actual characteristic that has been translated and

 

 

scaled to remove zero-offset error and full-scale

 

 

error. A terminal-based characteristic resembles an

 

 

actual characteristic with zero-offset error and full-

 

 

scale error removed.

transfer function

A graph of output code versus input voltage; the

 

 

characteristic of the A/D converter.

transfer function errors

Errors inherent in an analog-to-digital conversion

 

 

process: quantizing error, zero-offset error, full-scale

 

 

error, differential nonlinearity, and nonlinearity.

 

 

Errors that are hardware-dependent, rather than being

 

 

inherent in the process itself, include feedthrough,

 

 

repeatability, channel-to-channel matching, off-

 

 

isolation, and VCC rejection errors.

UART

Universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter. A

 

 

part of the serial I/O port.

 

 

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