Acronyms and Abbreviations

ADC (A/D)

Analog to Digital converter/conversion

ADCON0

A/D Control O; File08h (PIC16C71)

ADCON1

A/D Control 1; File 88h (PIC16C71)

ADCSn

A/D Clock Select, bits 1:0 in the ADCON0 file register

ADIE

A/D Interrupt Enable mask; INTCON[6] (PIC16C71X)/PIE1[6]

ADIF

A/D Interrupt Flag; ADCON0[1] (PIC16C71X)/PIR1[6]


ADON

A/D module ON; ADCON0[0]

ADRES

A/D RESult; File09h/89h (PIC16C71X)/File 1Eh

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

ANn

A/D input pinn

ANSII

American National Standards Institution

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BCD

Binary Coded Decimal

BF

Buffer Full; SSPSTAT[0]

C

Carry flag in the Status register; STATUS[0]

CCP

Capture/Compare PWM module

CCP1

CCP1 input/output pin (Common with RC2)

CCPR1H

CCP Register 1 High byte; File 15h

CCPR1L

CCP Register 1 Low byte; File 16h

CCP1CON

CCP1 CONtrol register; File 1Dh

CCP1IE

CCP1 Interrupt Enable mask; PIE1[2]

CCP1IF

CCP1 Interrupt Flag; PIR1[2]

CCP2IE

CCP2 Interrupt Enable mask; PIE2[0]

CCP2IF

CCP2 Interrupt Flag; PIR2[0]

CCP1M

CCP Mode control; CCP1CON[3:0]

CHSn

A/D CHannel Select; ADCON[5:3]

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer

CKP

ClocK Polarity; SSPCON[4]

CMOS

Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CREN

Continuous Receive ENable; RCSTA[4]

CS

Chip Select

CTS

Clear To Send, RS-232 handshake signal

DAC (D/A)

Digital to Analog converter/conversion

DC

Digit Carry flag in the Status register; STATUS[1]

DC1B

Duty Cycle 1 Bits; CCP1CON[5:4]

DCE

Data Circuit terminating Equipment

DTE

Data Terminal Equipment

ea

Effective Address

EEADR

EEPROM Address; File 09h or File 10Dh

EEADRH

EEPROM Address High byte; File 10Fh

EECON1

EEPROM Control 1; File 88h or File 18Ch

EECON2

EEPROM Control 2; File 89h or File 18Dh

EEDATA

EEPROM DATA; File 08h or File 10Ch

EEDATH

EEPROM Data High byte; File 10Eh

EEIE

EEPROM Interrupt Enable mask; INTCON[6] or PIE2[4]

EEIF

EEPROM Interrupt Flag; EECON1[4] or PIR2[4]

EEPGD

EEPROM Program/Data; EECON1[7].

EEPROM

Electrical Erasable PROM

EPROM

Erasable PROM

FERR

Framing Error; RCSTA[2]

FSR

File Select Register; File 4

GIE

Global Interrupt Enable mask; INTCON[7]

GO/DONE

ADC Start Convert (GO)/End Of Conversion (DONE); ADCON0[2]

GPR

General-Purpose file Register

GPn

General-purpose Register (I/O port) GPIO pinn

IC

Integrated Circuit

I2C

Inter-Integrated Circuit serial protocol

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IEC

International Electro technical Commission

INDF

Indirect File register; File 0

INT

External Interrupt input pin (Common with RB0)

INTCON

Interrupt Control Register; File 0Bh

INTEDG

External Interrupt Edge polarity selection; OPTION_REG[0]

INTE

Interrupt Enable; INTCON[4]

INTF

Interrupt Flag; INTCON[1]

I/O

Input/Output

IRP

Indirect addressing Register Page; STATUS[7]

ISR

Interrupt Service Routine

LED

Light-Emitting Diode

LSB

Least Significant Bit or Byte

LSI

Large Scale Integration

LSD

Least Significant Digit

MCLR

Master Clear reset pin

MCU

Microcontroller Unit

MPU

Microprocessor Unit

ms

Millisecond (10"3 s)

MSB

Most Significant Bit or Byte

MSD

Most Significant Digit

MSI

Medium Scale Integration

ns

Nanosecond (10"9 s)

OE

Output Enable

OERR

Overflow Error; RCSTA[1]

Operating System OS

OPTION_REG

OPTION file Register; File 81 h

OTP

One-Time Programmable (EPROM)

PC

Program Counter

PC

Personal Computer

PCFGn

A/D Port Configuration; ADCON1[2:0]

PCL

Program Counter Low byte; File 2

PCLATH

Program Counter Latch High byte; File 0Ah

PD

Power Down sleep mode; STATUS[3]

PEIE

Peripheral Interrupt Enable mask; INTCON[6]

PIC

Peripheral Interface Controller

PIPO

Parallel-In Parallel-Out register

PIE1

Peripheral Interrupt Enable register 1, File 8Ch

PIE2

Peripheral Interrupt Enable register 2, File 8Dh

PIR1

Peripheral Interrupt Register 1, File0Ch

PIR2

Peripheral Interrupt Register 2, File 0Dh

PISO

Parallel-In Serial-Out shift register

PR2

Period Register for Timer 2; File 92h

PRNG

Pseudo Random Number Generator

PROM

Programmable ROM

PS

Post/Prescale rate Select; OPTION_REG[2:0]

PSA

Post/Prescale Scaler Assign; OPTION_REG[3]

PWM

Pulse Width Modulation

RAn

Register (port) A I/O pinn

RAM

Random Access Memory

RBn

Register (port)B I/O pinn

RBIE

Register B Interrupt Enable; INTCON[3]

RBIF

Register B Interrupt Flag; INTCON[0]

RBPU

Register B Pull-UP; OPTION_REG[7]

RCIE

ReCeive register Interrupt Enable mask; PIE1[5]

RCIF

ReCeive register Interrupt Flag; PIR1[5]

RCREG

ReCeive data REGister; File 1Ah

RCSTA

ReCeive STAtus register; File 18h

RD

ReaD; EECON1[0] file register

REn

Register (port)E I/O pinn

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer (see CISC)

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RPn

Register Page bits; STATUS[6:5]

rtl

Register Transfer Language

RTS

Ready To Send, RS-232 handshake signal

RX

ReCeive pin for USART (common with RC7)

RX9

ReCeive 9-bit data control; RCSTA[6]

RTCC

Real Time Counter/Clock (see Timer 0)

SAR

Successive Approximation Register

SCK

Serial Clock in SPI protocol

SDI

Serial Data Input in SPI protocol

SDO

Serial Data Output in SPI protocol

SIPO

Serial-In Parallel-Out shift register

SISO

Serial-In Serial-Out shift register

SP

Stack Pointer

SPBRG

Serial Port Baud-Rate Generator; File 99h

SPEN

Serial Port Enable; RCSTA[7]

SPI

Serial Peripheral Interface protocol

SPR

Special-Purpose file Register

SSP

Synchronous Serial Port

SSPBUF

SSP Buffer register; File 13h (PIC16C7X)

SSPCON

SSP Control file Register, File 14h

SSPEN

SSP Enable; SSPCON[5]

SSPIE

SSP Interrupt Enable mask; PIE1[3]

SSPIF

SSP Interrupt Flag; PIR1[3]

SSPM

SSP Mode control; SSPCON[3:0]

SSPSR

SSP Shift Register (PIC16C7X)

STATUS

Status Register; File3

SYNC

Synchronous mode in the USART; TXSTA[4]

To

Watchdog Time Out; STATUS[4]

T0CKI

Timer 0 ClocK Input pin (Common with RA4)

T0CS

Timer 0 Clock Select; OPTION_REG[5]

T0IE

Timer 0 Interrupt Enable mask; INTCON[5]

T0IF

Timer 0 Interrupt Flag; INTCON[2]

T1CKI

Timer 1 Clock Input pin (Common with RC0)

T1CON

Timer 1 Control register; File 10h

T2CON

Timer 2 Control register; File 12h

T1OSCEN

Timer 1 Oscillator Enable; T1CON[3]

T1SYNC

Timer 1 Synchronize; T1CON[2]

TMR0

TiMeR0 file register; File 1

TMR1CS

Timer 1 Clock Select; T1CON[1]

TMR1H

Timer 1 High byte file register; File 0Fh

TMR1IE

Timer 1 Interrupt Enable mask; PIE1[0]

TMR2IE

Timer 2 Interrupt Enable mask; PIE1[1]

TMR1IF

Timer 1 Interrupt Flag; PIR1[0]

TMR2IF

Timer 2 Interrupt Flag; PIR1[1]

TMR1L

Timer 1 Low byte file register; File 0Eh

TMR1ON

Timer 1 ON; T1C0N[0]

TOUTPS

Timer 2 Output Post Scalar; T2C0N[3:0]

TRISA

TRI State A (Data Direction register A) File register, File 85h

TRISB

TRI State B (Data Direction register B) File register, File 86h

TRISC

TRI State C (Data Direction register C) File register, File 87h

TRISD

TRI State D (Data Direction register D) File register, File 87h

T0SE

Timer 0 Set Edge; OPTION_REG[4]

TTL

Transistor Transistor Logic family

TTY

Tele Typewriter

TX

Transmit pin for USART (Common with RC6)

TXEN

Transmit register Enable; TXSTA[5]

TXIE

Transmit register Interrupt Enable mask; PIE1[4]

TXIF

Transmit register Interrupt Flag; PIR1[4]

TXREG

Transmit data Register; File 19h

TXSTA

Transmit Status register; File 98h

|s

Microsecond (10"6 s)

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

USART

Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

Vdd

Positive (Drain) supply voltage

Vee

Earth (0 V) supply voltage

Vpp

Positive Programming voltage

VLSI

Very Large-Scale Integration

W

Working register

WCOL

Write Collision; SSPCON[7]

WR

Write; EECON1[1]

WREN

Write Enable; EECON1[2]

WRERR

Write Error; EECON1[3]

Z

Zero flag in the Status register; STATUS[2]

 

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