National Instruments NI-488.2 User Manual page 117

Glossary
Prefix
n-
m-
M-
A
acceptor handshake
access board
ANSI
API
ASCII
asynchronous
automatic serial
polling
B
base I/O address
BIOS
board-level function
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Meaning
nano-
milli-
mega-
Listeners use this GPIB interface function to receive data, and all devices
use it to receive commands. See source handshake and handshake.
The GPIB board that controls and communicates with the devices on the
bus that are attached to it.
American National Standards Institute.
Application Programming Interface
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
An action or event that occurs at an unpredictable time with respect to the
execution of a program.
A feature of the GPIB software in which serial polls are executed
automatically by the driver whenever a device asserts the GPIB SRQ line.
Also called autopolling.
See I/O address.
Basic Input/Output System.
A rudimentary function that performs a single operation.
Value
–9
10
10 –3
10 6
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