Glossary
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National Instruments Corporation
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PCI-Based MXI-2 Interfaces for Windows 2000/NT/Me/98
NI-VISA
The National Instruments implementation of the VISA standard; an
interface-independent software that provides a unified programming
interface for VXI, GPIB, PXI, TCP/IP, and serial instruments
NI-VXI
The National Instruments bus interface software for VME/VXIbus systems
Non-Slot 0 device
A device configured for installation in any slot in a VXIbus mainframe
other than Slot 0. Installing such a device into Slot 0 can damage the device,
the VXIbus backplane, or both.
O
Onboard RAM
The optional RAM installed into the SIMM slots of the MXI-2 board
P
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect. The PCI bus is a high-performance
32-bit or 64-bit bus with multiplexed address and data lines.
PXI
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation; an open implementation of
CompactPCI that adds electrical features that meet the high-performance
requirements of instrumentation applications by providing triggering, local
buses, and system clock capabilities. PXI also offers two-way
interoperability with CompactPCI products.
R
register-based device
A Servant-only device that supports VXIbus configuration registers.
Register-based devices are typically controlled by message-based devices
via device-dependent register reads and writes.
Resman
The name of the National Instruments Resource Manager in NI-VXI bus
interface software.
See
Resource Manager.
Resource Manager
A message-based Commander located at Logical Address 0, which
provides configuration management services such as address map
configuration, Commander and Servant mappings, and self-test and
diagnostic management
retry
An acknowledge by a destination that signifies that the cycle did not
complete and should be repeated
