National Instruments NI PXI-8104 User Manual page 68

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MTBF
MTTR
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NI-488 or NI-488.2
NI-DAQ
NI-VISA
NMI
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PCI
PCI Express
PCMCIA
peripheral
POSC
PXI
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Megabytes of memory.
Mean time between failure.
Mean time to repair.
The National Instruments software for GPIB systems.
The National Instruments software for data acquisition instruments.
The National Instruments implementation of the VISA standard—An
interface-independent software that provides a unified programming
interface for VXI, GPIB, and serial instruments.
Non-maskable interrupt—High-priority interrupt that cannot be disabled.
It is used to report malfunctions such as parity, bus and math coprocessor
errors.
Peripheral Component Interconnect—The PCI bus is a high-performance
32-bit or 64-bit bus with multiplexed address and data lines.
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express—A faster, serialized version
of the PCI bus.
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
Any hardware device connected to a computer, such as a monitor,
keyboard, printer, plotter, disk or tape drive, graphics tablet, scanner,
mouse, and so on.
Power On Self Configuration.
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation—An open implementation of
CompactPCI that adds electrical features that meet the high-performance
requirements of instrumentation applications by providing triggering,
local buses, and system clock capabilities. PXI also offers two-way
interoperability with CompactPCI products.
G-5
Glossary
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