Glossary
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I
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 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.
interface Connection between one or more of the following: hardware, software, and
the user. For example, hardware interfaces connect two other pieces of
hardware.
IVI Interchangeable Virtual Instruments. A technology involving standard
programming interfaces for classes of instruments, such as oscilloscopes,
DMMs, and function generators, that results in hardware-independent
instrument drivers. The IVI standard programming interfaces have been
defined by the IVI Foundation, an industry consortium. Refer to
www.ivifoundation.org for more information.
K
knob A control used to input or display numerical data.