GLOSSARY

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.

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.

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 device if software

 

fails to respond before the timer overflows.

waveform generator

One of the 8XC196Mx peripherals that can be used to

 

produce pulse-width modulated (PWM) outputs. The

 

waveform generator is optimized for controlling 3-

 

phase AC induction motors, brushless DC motors,

 

and other devices requiring multiple PWM outputs.

WDT

See watchdog timer.

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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