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Official abbreviation for "mega samples per second"?

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Hello! What is the official (IEEE) abbreviation for "mega samples per second", Msps, MSPS or MSps? Has this been standardized (and if so, where?)?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Jorge.
 

It seems in the recent trend is actually "MS/s". Despite I don't like it (to me it reads "Mega-Siemens-per-second"!), I guess I have no better alternatives...
 

I have seen a lot more MS/s than the others.
 

spectrallypure said:
Hello! What is the official (IEEE) abbreviation for "mega samples per second", Msps, MSPS or MSps? Has this been standardized (and if so, where?)?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Jorge.
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To my knowledge capital letters (like "S" for samples) are used only for metric prefix (M for mega, G for Giga and T,P,E) or for units derived from forename (Ampere, Kelvin, Pascal, Newton, Watt, Celsius, Volta, Ohm, Faraday, Henry, Weber, Siemens, Joule, Tesla, Hertz, Becquerel, Sievert, Gray). I would rather use Msps as an corect abbreviation.
 

If you look here (I don t know if it is not out of date) you will find there is no sample abbreviation, and see capital letter "S" is for Siemens and the tiny "s" is for second.

But as i said, i ve seen more MS/s than Msps, because if you are talking about sampling rate, I really doubt someone would traduce MS/s by Mega Siemens per second... It would be odd.
 

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. In the end we've decided to follow the flock and go for MS/s. :)
 

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