National Instruments VXI-SB2020 Getting Started page 58

Glossary
N
NI-VXI
Non-Slot 0 device
P
propagation
R
Register-Based
device
resman
Resource Manager
RM
S
s
Servant
shell
shell script
slave
slave-mode
operation
VXI-SB2020 and NI-VXI for Solaris
The National Instruments bus interface software for VME/VXIbus
systems.
A device configured for installation in any slot in a VXIbus mainframe
other than Slot 0. Installing such a device into Slot 0 can damage the
device, the VXIbus backplane, or both.
The transmission of signal through a computer system.
A Servant-only device that supports VXIbus configuration registers.
Register-Based devices are typically controlled by Message-Based devices
via device-dependent register reads and writes.
The name of the National Instruments Resource Manager in NI-VXI bus
interface software. See Resource Manager.
A Message-Based Commander located at Logical Address 0, which
provides configuration management services such as address map
configuration, Commander and Servant mappings, and self-test and
diagnostic management.
See Resource Manager.
seconds
A device controlled by a Commander; there are Message-Based and
Register-Based Servants.
An interactive program for commands.
The commands used to perform batch processing.
A functional part of a MXI/VME/VXIbus device that detects data transfer
cycles initiated by a VMEbus master and responds to the transfers when
the address specifies one of the device's registers.
A device is in slave mode it if is responding to a bus cycle.
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