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Preface
PCI-9524
ADLINK Technology Inc.
User’s Manual
Copyright 2008
EMI - Electromagnetic Interference
ENOB - Effective Number of Bits
FIFO - First In, First Out
FPGA - Field-Programmable Gate Array
GB - Gigabyte (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Hz/KHz/MHz - hertz / Kilo hertz / Mega hertz, standard unit of
frequency
I/O (IO) - Input / Output
IIH - Input current at logic high
IIL - Input current at logic low
IIR - Infinite impulse response
IOL - Output current at logic low
IRQ / SERIRQ - Interrupt Request / Serial Interrupt Request
ITU - International Telecommunications Union
LabVIEW - Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering
Workbench, a visual programming
LBS - Least significant bit
LED - Light Emitting Diode
MB - Megabyte (1,048,576 bytes)
MOSFET - Metal-Oxide Semiconducgtor Field Effect
ohm - a standard unit of electrical resistance “
Ω
“
OS - Operating System
PC - Personal Computer
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
RMS - Root Mean Square
RSV - Reserved
SNR - Singnal to Noise Ratio
SPS - Samples per Second
SSI - Synchronization System Interface