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MS246 User Manual
3. Terms and Abbreviations
AAMVA American Association of Motor Vehicle Administration
ABA American Banking Association
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
BPI Bits per Inch
CADL California Drivers License Format (obsolescent)
CE European Safety and Emission approval authority
COM serial communication
CTS Clear-To-Send
CDC USB to serial driver (Communication Device Class)
DES Data Encryption Standard
DUKPT Derived Unique Key Per Transaction
DMV Department of Motor Vehicle
GND Signal Ground
HID Human Interface Device
IPS Inches per Second
ISO International Organization for Standardization
JIS Japanese Industrial Standard
JPOS Java for Retail Point Of Sale
KB Keyboard
KSN Key Serial Number
LED Light Emitting Diode
LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Check Character.
MAC Message Authentication Code
MSR Magnetic Stripe Reader
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OPOS OLE for Retail Point Of Sale
OTP One Time Programmable
PAN Primary account number
PCI Payment Card Industry
PID USB Product ID
POS Point of Sale
PPMSR Serial Port Power Magstripe Reader
P/N Part Number
PS/2 IBM Personal System/2 Keyboard Interface
RTS Request To Send
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
T1, T2, T3 Track 1 data, Track 2 data, Track 3 data
TDES Triple Data Encryption Standard
VID USB Vendor ID
Note: many unusual words used in this document are defined in the Function ID
table in Appendix A on page 59.