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About This Manual
This manual describes the electrical and mechanical aspects of the
SCXI-1112 module and contains information concerning its installation
and operation.
The SCXI-1112 module is a member of the National Instruments Signal
Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentation (SCXI) Series for the
National Instruments data acquisition (DAQ) plug-in devices. This module
is designed for conditioning thermocouple signals. The SCXI-1112 module
has eight differential analog input channels and eight cold-junction sensor
channels.
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual.
< >
Angle brackets containing numbers separated by an ellipsis represent a
range of values associated with a port, bit, or signal name (for example,
ACH<0..7> stands for the signals ACH0 through ACH7).
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts you
to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
bold italic
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
italic
Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a key
concept.
MIO board
Refers to the multichannel I/O DAQ boards that have MIO in their names,
such as the AT-MIO-16 and the NEC-MIO-16E-4.
monospace
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.
PC
Refers to the IBM PC/XT, the IBM PC AT, and compatible computers.
