8XC196LX SUPPLEMENT

VCC rejection

The property of an A/D converter that causes it to

 

ignore (reject) changes in VCC so that the actual

 

characteristic is unaffected by those changes. The

 

effectiveness of VCC rejection is measured by the ratio

 

of the change in VCC to the change in the actual

 

characteristic.

VPW

Variable pulse-width. A forced high/low symbol

 

transition formatting scheme that tracks the duration

 

between two consecutive transitions and the level of

 

the bus, active or passive.

wait state

Time spent waiting for an operation to take place.

 

Wait states are added to external bus cycles to allow a

 

slow memory device to respond to a request from the

 

microcontroller.

watchdog timer

An internal timer that resets the microcontroller if

 

software fails to respond before the timer overflows.

WDT

Watchdog timer. An internal timer that resets the

 

microcontroller if software fails to respond before the

 

timer overflows.

word

Any 16-bit unit of data.

WORD

An unsigned, 16-bit variable with values from 0

 

through 216–1.

zero extension

A method for converting data to a larger format by

 

filling the upper bit positions with zeros.

zero-offset error

An ideal A/D converter’s first code transition occurs

 

when the input voltage is 0.5 LSB. Zero-offset error is

 

the difference between 0.5 LSB and the actual input

 

voltage that triggers an A/D converter’s first code

 

transition.

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