National Instruments 6527 User Manual page 43

I
I/O
in.
isolation
L
LED
M
m
max
MOSFET
O
optical isolation
optocoupler
P
PCI
port
PXI
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input/output
inches
signal conditioning to break ground loops and reject high common-mode
voltages to protect equipment and users and to ensure accurate
measurements
light-emitting diode
meters
maximum
metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
the technique of using an optocoupler to transfer data without electrical
continuity, to eliminate high-potential differences and transients
a device that transfers electrical signals by utilizing light waves to provide
coupling with electrical isolation between input and output
Peripheral Component Interconnect—a high-performance expansion bus
architecture originally developed by Intel to replace ISA and EISA.
a digital port, consisting of four or eight lines of digital input and/or output
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation—an open specification that builds on
the CompactPCI specification by adding instrumentation-specific features
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