National Instruments Measurement Studio G, H, I

Glossary

G

gauge A control used to input or display numerical data.

GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus. The standard bus used for controlling

electronic instruments with a computer. Also called IEEE 488 bus because

it is defined by ANSI/IEEE Standards 488-1978, 488.1-1987, and

488.2-1987.

graph A 2D or 3D display of one or more plots.

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol. Protocol based on TCP/IP, which is used to

download Web pages from an HTTP server to a Web browser.

IEEE 488 Shortened notation for ANSI/IEEE Standards 488-1978, 488.1-1987,

and 488.2-1987. See also GPIB.

IMAQ Vision National Instruments image acquisition and analysis software that you

can use to acquire images from National Instruments image acquisition

(IMAQ) boards, display them in your program, perform interactive viewer

operations, and analyze the images to extract information.

indicator A control in read-only mode.

installer Software program that copies program, system, and other necessary files to

computers.

instrument driver Library of functions to control and use one specific physical instrument.

Also a set of functions that adds specific functionality to an application.

Instrument I/O

Assistant

Assists in writing code to communicate with devices such as serial,

Ethernet, or GPIB instruments. The Instrument I/O Assistant provides a

user interface within the Visual Studio .NET environment. You use the

Instrument I/O Assistant to interactively write commands to a device, read

data that the device returns, and specify how to parse the response.