National Instruments VME-SB2020 Getting Started page 59

Glossary
MXIbus
MXIbus System
Controller
N
NI-VXI
P
propagation
R
Register-Based
device
resman
Resource Manager
RM
S
s
Servant
shell
shell script
VME-SB2020/NI-VXI/Solaris Getting Started
Multisystem eXtension Interface Bus; a high-performance communication
link that interconnects devices using round, flexible cables.
A functional module that has arbiter, daisy-chain driver, and MXIbus
cycle timeout responsibility. Always the first device in the MXIbus
daisy-chain.
The National Instruments bus interface software for VME/VXIbus
systems.
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.
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