National Instruments NI PXIe-8105 - page 68

Glossary
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IRQ# Interrupt signal.
ISA Industry St andard Architecture—The original PC bus architecture,
specifically the 16-bit AT bus.
K
KB Kilobytes of memory.
L
LAN Local Area Network—Communications network that serves users within
a confined geographical area. It is made up of servers, workstations,
a network operating system, and a communications link.
LED Light-emitt ing diode.
M
m Meters.
master A functional part of a PXI device that initiates data transfers on the
PXI backplane. A transfer can be either a read or a write.
MB Megabytes of memory.
MTBF Mean time between failure.
N
NI-488 or NI-488.2 The National Instruments software for GPIB systems.
NI-DAQ The National Instruments software for data acquisition instruments.
NI-VISA The National Instruments implementatio n of the VISA standard—An
interface-independent software that provides a unified programming
interface for VXI, GPIB, and serial instruments.