- Industry: Automation
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Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation power, control, and information solutions.
The number of bytes that can be transmitted as one independent group on a physical medium. The size may vary, with the maximum packet size being determined by the implementation.
Industry:Automation
1) A set of words or bytes handled as a unit, but not addressable as a unit as with a file. A block is typically defined by the number of words in length and the starting word address within a file. 2) See I/O block
Industry:Automation
A pointing device that when positioned by hand on a desk surface, translates that physical position into a cursor position on a screen.
Industry:Automation
General term for digital circuits and programmed instructions to perform required decision-making and computational functions.
Industry:Automation
A flat disc with a magnetic surface on which data can be stored by selective polarization.
Industry:Automation
An application- level command set that Allen-Bradley programmable controllers use to communicate across networks.
Industry:Automation
The number of cycles (lines) per revolution on an encoder channel.
Industry:Automation
1) A sink output; when turned on, it supplies a negative dc current to its load. 2) Contrasted with driver
Industry:Automation
A portion of a computer’s RAM set aside for temporarily holding information read from disk. A disc cache does not hold entire files. Instead, it holds information that has recently been requested from disc or written to disk. The purpose of holding this information in RAM is to try to avoid reading it from disc multiple times.
Industry:Automation
