© National Instruments Corporation G-1 BridgeVIEW User Manual
Glossary
Prefix Meanings Value
m- milli- 1 0–3
µ- micro- 10–6
n- nano- 10–9

A

access level Numeric value between 0 and 255 that can be used to control access to
your HMI.
ACK (Acknowledge) The sequence action that indicates recognition of a new alarm.
alarm An abnormal process condition. In BridgeVIEW, an alarm occurs if a tag
value goes out of its defined alarm limits or if a tag has bad status.
Alarm Summary A display of tags currently in alarm, or a display of tags previously in an
unacknowledged alarm state that have returned to a normal state.
analog tag A continuous value representation of a connection to a real-world I/O point
or memory variable. This type of tag can vary continuously over a range of
values within a signal range.
Application
Programming Interface A specification of a set of software functions and their input and return
parameters.
application software The application created using the BridgeVIEW Development System and
executed in the BridgeVIEW Run-Time System environment.
array An ordered, indexed set of data elements of the same type.
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
attribute node A special block diagram node you can use to control the appearance and
functionality of controls and indicators.