National Instruments 800 Series - Manual (Page 93)

© National Instruments Corporation Glossary-1 VXIpc 800 Series User Manual
Glossary
A
A Amperes
address Character code that identifies a specific location (or series of locations)
in memory
address space A set of 2
n
memory locations differentiated from other such sets in VXI/
VMEbus systems by six addressing lines known as address modifiers. n
is the number of address lines required to uniquely specify a byte
location in a given space. Valid numbers for n are 16, 24, and 32. In
VME/VXI, because there are six address modifiers, there are 64
possible address spaces.
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
Prefix Meaning Value
n- nano- 10 –9
µ- micro- 10 –6
m- milli- 10 –3
k- kilo- 10 3
M- mega- 10 6
G- giga- 10 9