National Instruments VXI/VME 600 - Manual (Page 54)

Glossary
VXI/VMEpc 600 Series for Windows 95/NT G-6 © National Instruments Corporation
Non-Slot 0 device 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.
P
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect. The PCI bus is a high-performance
32-bit or 64-bit bus with multiplexed address and data lines.
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
POSC Power On Self Configuration
R
RBD Register-Based Device
register-based device 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.
Resman The name of the National Instruments Resource Manager in NI-VXI bus
interface software. See Resource Manager.
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
retry An acknowledge by a destination that signifies that the cycle did not
complete and should be repeated
S
s seconds
Servant A device controlled by a Commander; there are message-based and
register-based Servants
Shared Memory Protocol A communication protocol that uses a block of memory accessible to both
a client and a server. The memory block operates as a message buffer for
communications. This is unique to register-based interfaces such as VXI.