Glossary
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PXI-PCI 8330 Series User Manual
PCI-MITE
A custom ASIC designed by National Instruments that implements the PCI
bus interface. The PCI-MITE supports bus mastering for high speed data
transfers over the PCI bus. It is also used in PXI cards.
PCI-PCI bridge
A device that transparently expands the PCI bus on a computer
motherboard to another bus segment in the same machine. The bridge
expands the number of PCI expansion slots, but remains transparent to the
end user.
PXI
Stands for PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation. PXI is an open specification
that builds off the CompactPCI specification by adding
instrumentation-specific features.
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VCSEL
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser
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