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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Symbol Descriptions
AC Alternating Current
AWG American Wire Gauge
BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor
DC Direct Current
GND Ground
IC Integrated Circuit
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit
I/O Input / Output
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
RAM Random Access Memory
RF Radio Frequency
ROM Read Only Memory
SCL Serial Clock
SDA Serial Data
LED Light Emitting Diode
LSB Least Significant Bit
MISO Master in Slave Out
MOSI Master Out Slave In
MPU Microprocessor Unit
NI National Instruments
NPN Negative, Positive, Negative
PC Personal Computer
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PIC Programmable Interface Controller
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
RAM Random Access Memory
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RF Radio Frequency
RIO Reconfigurable Input Output
RISC Research Institute for Symbolic Computation
RMS Remote Monitoring and Control System
ROM Read Only Memory
RS Register Select
R/W Read/Write
RX/TX Receive/Transmit
SCK Serial Clock
SCL Clock Line
SDA Data Line
SMS Short Message Service
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SS Slave Select
TTL Transistor Logic
TWI Two Wire Interface
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USARTS Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus
VIN Input
VSS Supply Voltage
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity