Glossary

ADC see Analog to Digital Converter

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) a code used to communicate 128 unique letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and special commands. Although the original ASCII code used only seven bits, the extended ASCII code uses eight bits and includes non-Roman letters and currency symbols.

Ampere a unit of measure for the quantity of current that flows in a circuit and a basic International System of Units (SI) measurement. Named after the French physicist and mathematician André Marie Ampère (1775–1836).

Analog in electronics, a type of signal that can vary without discrete steps.

Analog to digital converter (ADC) an electronic circuit that converts an analog signal into a value represented ...

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