Glossary
VXI-AT2000/NI-VXI MS-DOS Getting Started
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FCC
Federal Communications Commission
G
GIN
Daisy-chain Grant In signal
GOUT
Daisy-chain Grant Out signal
GPIB
General Purpose Interface Bus; the industry-standard IEEE 488 bus.
H
hex
Hexadecimal; the numbering system with base 16, using the digits 0 to 9
and letters A to F.
Hz
hertz; cycles per second.
I
IC
Integrated Circuit
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
in.
inches
I/O
input/output; the techniques, media, and devices used to achieve
communication between machines and users.
interrupt
A means for a device to request service from another device.
interrupt handler
A VMEbus functional module that detects interrupt requests generated by
Interrupters and responds to those requests by requesting status and
identify information.
interrupt level
The relative priority at which a device can interrupt.
INTX
Interrupt Timing and Extension
IRQ*
Interrupt signal
ISA
Industry Standard Architecture
K
KB
1,024; kilobytes of memory
