National Instruments NI PXIe-8130 User Manual page 81

Glossary
IRQ#
ISA
K
KB
L
LAN
LED
M
m
master
MB
MTBF
N
NI-488 or NI-488.2
NI-DAQ
NI-VISA
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Interrupt signal.
Industry Standard Architecture—The original PC bus architecture,
specifically the 16-bit AT bus.
Kilobytes of memory.
Local Area Network—Communications network that serves users within
a confined geographical area. It is made up of servers, workstations,
a network operating system, and a communications link.
Light-emitting diode.
Meters.
A functional part of a PXI device that initiates data transfers on the
PXI backplane. A transfer can be either a read or a write.
Megabytes of memory.
Mean time between failure.
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.
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