Glossary
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PCI-MITE Acustom ASIC designed by National Instruments that implements the PCI
businterface. The PCI-MITE supports bus mastering for high speed data
transfersoverthePCIbus.ItisalsousedinPXIcards.
PCI-PCI bridge A device that transparently expands the PCI bus on a computer
motherboard to another bus segment in the same machine. The bridge
expandsthe number of PCI expansion slots, but remains t ransparent tot he
enduser.
PXI Stands for PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation. PXI is an open specification
that buildsoff the CompactPCI specification by adding
instrumentation-specificfeatures.
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VCSEL VerticalCavity Surface Emitting Laser