PCM (disambiguation)

PCM or pulse-code modulation is a digital representation of an analog signal.

PCM may also refer to:

Computing

• Performance Counter Monitor, Intel's technology for monitoring performance levels of CPUs
• Personal Computer Magazine, a Dutch computer magazine
• Phase-change memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory
• Plug compatible manufacturer, a computer system designed to be backwards compatible
• Process control monitoring, in computing, a procedure followed to obtain detailed information about the process use

Technology

• Phase change material, a chemical substance with a high heat of fusion
• Phase conjugate mirror, a type of mirror, that conjugates the phase of the light while reflecting it
• Photochemical machining, a process for machining thin materials with chemicals and UV light
• Polarizable continuum model, used to model solvent in physical chemistry computation
• Powertrain control module, an on-board car computer designed to minimize its emissions and increase fuel economy

Organizations

• Partido Comunista Mexicano (Mexican Communist Party), a former communist political party in Mexico
• Partidul Civic Maghiar (Hungarian Civic Party), an ethnic Hungarian political party in Romania
• PCM Uitgevers, a Dutch publishing company
• PCM, Inc., a U.S. computer retailing company

Other uses

• Per cent mille (pcm), one one-thousandth of a percent
• Pro Cycling Manager, a cycling game by Cyanide Studios
• Project cycle management, the process of planning and managing projects, programmes and organisations
• Psychological continuum model, a framework to classify sport and event consumers, in order of their psychological connection towards the object
• Nigerian pidgin language, ISO language code "pcm"
• Process Communication Model, a non-clinical personality assessment, communication and management methodology
• Perchloromethyl mercaptan, a synthetic intermediate