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About This Manual
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DAQCard-DIO-24 User Manual
bold italic
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
card
Card refers to the DAQCard-DIO-24 unless otherwise stated.
device
Device refers to a National Instruments data acquisition board, card, or
SCXI module.
italic
Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a
key concept.
italic monospace
Italic text in this font denotes that you must supply the appropriate
words or values in the place of these items.
Macintosh
Macintosh refers to a Macintosh or Power Book equipped with a
Type II 5 V-capable slot.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that are to be literally input
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, variables, filenames, and extensions, and for
statements and comments taken from program code.
NI-DAQ
NI-DAQ refers to the NI-DAQ software for PC compatibles or
Macintosh unless otherwise stated.
PC
PC refers to an IBM PC/XT, PC AT, Personal System/2, or laptop
compatible computer that is equipped with a PCMCIA standard
version 2.0 or later bus interface and a Type II +5 V-capable slot.
SCXI
SCXI stands for Signal Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentation
and is a National Instruments product line designed to perform
front-end signal conditioning for National Instruments plug-in DAQ
devices.
Abbreviations, acronyms, metric prefixes, mnemonics, and symbols are
listed in the Glossary.