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About This Manual
SCXI-1160 User Manual xii © National Instruments Corporation
• Appendix G, Customer Communication, contains forms you can use to request help from
National Instruments or to comment on our products.
• The Glossary contains an alphabetical list and description of terms used in this manual,
including abbreviations, acronyms, metric prefixes, mnemonics, and symbols.
• The Index contains an alphabetical list of key terms and topics in this manual, including the
page where you can find each one.
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual:
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This icon below bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system
crash.
DIO board DIO board refers to the National Instruments AT-DIO-32F, MC-DIO-24,
MC-DIO-32F, NB-DIO-24, NB-DIO-96, NB-DIO-32F, PC-DIO 24, and
PC-DIO-96 digital I/O data acquisition boards unless otherwise noted.
italic Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a key
concept.
Lab board Lab board refers to the National Instruments Lab-LC, Lab-NB, Lab-PC,
and Lab-PC+ boards unless otherwise noted.
MC MC refers to the Micro Channel series computers.
MIO board MIO board refers to the National Instruments AT-MIO-16,
AT-MIO-16F-5, AT-MIO-16X, MC-MIO-16, NB-MIO-16, and
NB-MIO-16X multichannel I/O data acquisition boards unless otherwise
noted.
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Lowercase 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.
NB NB refers to the NuBus series computers.
PC PC refers to the IBM PC/XT, the IBM PC AT, and compatible computers.
SCXIbus SCXIbus refers to the backplane in the chassis. A signal on the backplane
is referred to as the SCXIbus <signal name> line (or signal). The
SCXIbus descriptor may be omitted when the meaning is clear.
Descriptions of all SCXIbus signals are given in Appendix C, SCXIbus
Connector.
Slot 0 Slot 0 refers to the power supply and control circuitry in the SCXI chassis.
Abbreviations, acronyms, metric prefixes, mnemonics, symbols, and terms are listed in the
Glossary.