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PAL

Phase alternating line. Describes the color phase change in a PAL color signal. PAL is a European color TV system featuring 625 lines per frame, 50 fields per second and a 4.43361875- MHz sub-carrier. Used mainly in Europe, China, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and parts of Africa.

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect. A personal computer local bus designed by Intel, which runs at 33 MHz and supports Plug and Play.

PCI Express

An emerging (2004/2005) standard for high-speed graphics, likely to result in a 20 % boost over 2003-era AGP 8x performance.

PC reset relay

The PC reset relay is a component of the watchdog installed on Euresys frame grabbers. It is closed when the PC has to be reset.

Pulse-code modulation

It is a digital representation of an analog signal in a numeric code, usually in binary code. This is achieved by sampling the signal at a regular interval and then convert it into a digital signal.