© National Instruments Corp. G-1 STD-GPIB for Windows
Glossary
Prefix Meaning Value
m-
c-
k-
M-
milli-
centi-
kilo-
mega-
10-3
10-2
103
106
°degrees
% percent
A amperes
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
C Celsius
CPU central processing unit
DMA direct memory access
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
FCC Federal Communications Commission
GPIB Genera l Purpose Interface Bus
hex hexadecimal
Hz hertz
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
in. inches
I/O input/output
IRQ interrupt request
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
m meters
MB megabytes of memory
PC personal computer
RAM random-access memory
s seconds
VDC volts direct current