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Conventions Used in This Manual

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82C55A
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NI-DAQ
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DAQPad-6507/6508 User Manual
• Appendix D, Customer
request help from National Instruments or to comment on our
products.
• The Glossary contains an alphabetical list and description of terms
used in this manual, including abbreviations, acronyms, metric
prefixes, mnemonics, and symbols.
• The Index alphabetically lists the topics in this manual, including the
page where you can find each one.
The following conventions are used in this manual:
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts you
to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
82C55A refers to the OKI 82C55A (OKI Semiconductor) CMOS
programmable peripheral interface.
Angle brackets containing numbers separated by an ellipses represent
a range of values associated with a bit or signal name (for example,
ACH<0..7>).
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a key
concept.
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter
from the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax
examples. This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,
directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions,
operations, variables, filenames and extensions, and for statements and
comments taken from programs.
NI-DAQ refers to the NI-DAQ software for PC compatibles unless
otherwise noted.
SCXI stands for Signal Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentation and is
a National Instruments product line designed to perform front-end signal
conditioning for National Instruments plug-in DAQ devices.
Communication, contains forms you can use to
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