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81Real-time locating standards — Articleissues copyedit=May 2008According to ISO/IEC FDIS 19762 5 [ [http://www.autoid.org/SC31/sc31.htm] (ISO Subcommittee SC31)] an RTLS (real time locating system) is a combination of hardware and software that is used to continuously determine …
82Nobel Prizes — ▪ 2009 Introduction Prize for Peace The 2008 Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, former president (1994–2000) of Finland, for his work over more than 30 years in settling international disputes, many involving ethnic,… …
83Instruction set — An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), is the part of the computer architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception… …
84IEEE 802.15.4-2006 — is a standard which specifies the physical layer and medium access control for low rate wireless personal area networks (LR WPAN s). It is maintained by the IEEE 802.15 working group.It is the basis for the ZigBee, WirelessHART, and MiWi… …
85EtherCAT — is an open high performance Ethernet based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for… …
86AMD FireStream — The AMD FireStream (previously branded as both ATI FireStream and AMD Stream Processor [ [http://www.amd.com/us en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51 104 543 13744 114146,00.html AMD Press Release] ] ) is a stream processor developed by ATI… …
87Quadrature amplitude modulation — (QAM) (Pronounced IPA|kwa:m) is a modulation scheme which conveys data by changing ( modulating ) the amplitude of two carrier waves. These two waves, usually sinusoids, are out of phase with each other by 90° and are thus called quadrature… …
88Windows Media Player — A component of Microsoft Windows Details …
89Modbus — is a serial communications protocol published by Modicon in 1979 for use with its programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Simple and robust, it has since become one of the de facto standard communications protocols in the industry, and it is now… …
90Digital model railway control systems — A number of control systems are available to operate locomotives on model railways. The earlier traditional analog systems where the speed and the direction of a train is controlled by adjusting the voltage on the track are still popular while… …
