MC68HC708MP16 Datasheet, PDF (391/398 Pages) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc – Microcontrollers

Glossary
parity — An error-checking scheme that counts the number of logic 1s
in each byte transmitted. In a system that uses odd parity, every byte
is expected to have an odd number of logic 1s. In an even parity
system, every byte should have an even number of logic 1s. In the
transmitter, a parity generator appends an extra bit to each byte to
make the number of logic 1s odd for odd parity or even for even
parity. A parity checker in the receiver counts the number of logic 1s
in each byte. The parity checker generates an error signal if it finds a
byte with an incorrect number of logic 1s.
PC — See program counter (PC).
peripheral — A circuit not under direct CPU control.
phase-locked loop (PLL) — An oscillator circuit in which the frequency
of the oscillator is synchronized to a reference signal.
PLL — See phase-locked loop (PLL).
pointer — Pointer register. An index register is sometimes called a
pointer register because its contents are used in the calculation of the
address of an operand, and therefore points to the operand.
polarity — The two opposite logic levels, logic 1 and logic 0, which
correspond to two different voltage levels, V_DD and V_SS.
polling — Periodically reading a status bit to monitor the condition of a
peripheral device.
port — A set of wires for communicating with off-chip devices.
prescaler — A circuit that generates an output signal related to the input
signal by a fractional scale factor such as 1/2, 1/8, 1/10, etc.
program — A set of computer instructions that causes a computer to
perform a desired operation or operations.
program counter (PC) — A 16-bit register in the CPU08. The PC
register holds the address of the next instruction or operand that the
CPU will use.
pull — An instruction that copies into the accumulator the contents of a
stack RAM location. The stack RAM address is in the stack pointer.
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