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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA,14 May 2009 --The IEEE has reaffirmed two standards for instrumentation and measurement.
IEEE 444.1™, "IEEE Standard for Higher Performance Protocol for the Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation," was first approved in 2003.
IEEE 1174™, "IEEE Standard Serial Interface for Programmable Instrumentation," was first approved in 2000. It defines a serial, full-duplex, asynchronous, 9-pin data terminal equipment (DT ) communications port for programmable instrumentation that follows ANSI/TIA/ IA-574-1990 and related standards.
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