XINA Terminology

Mnemonic

The name of a housekeeping value. In XINA, this the mnemonic is a text string and it is associated with several fields such as units, the general measurement type, etc. Mnemonics can have aliases, which are simply alternative names for the same data.

Examples

PUMP_CURRENT could be the mnemonic name, units could be "Amps" and the measurement could be "Current".