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National Instruments NI PXIe-8105 User Manual

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Glossary

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IRQ#

Interrupt signal.

ISA

Industry Standard Architecture—The original PC bus architecture,
specifically the 16-bit AT bus.

K

KB

Kilobytes of memory.

L

LAN

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.

LED

Light-emitting diode.

M

m

Meters.

master

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.

MB

Megabytes of memory.

MTBF

Mean time between failure.

N

NI-488 or NI-488.2

The National Instruments software for GPIB systems.

NI-DAQ

The National Instruments software for data acquisition instruments.

NI-VISA

The National Instruments implementation of the VISA standard—An
interface-independent software that provides a unified programming
interface for VXI, GPIB, and serial instruments.