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Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
<> Angle brackets that contain numbers separated by an ellipsis represent a
range of values associated with a bit or signal name—for example,
DIG+0.<3..0>.
♦The ♦ symbol indicates that the text following it applies only to a specific
product, a specific operating system, or a specific software version.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a systemcrash.
This icon denotes a warning, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid being electrically shocked.
italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.
monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables, filenames and extensions, and code excerpts.
Related Documentation
The following documents also contain information that you may find
helpful as you read this manual:
• Your computer’s technical reference manual
•PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.0
• National Instruments PXI Specification, Revision 1.0
• PICMG 2.0 R2.1 CompactPCI