Glossary
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EPROM
Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPROMed CI
ECI; a form of CI that is user-installed into EPROMs
F
FIFO
First-In First-Out
G
GPIB
General Purpose Interface Bus. The industry standard IEEE 488 bus.
GPIB-VXI/C
local command set
consists of commands and queries
H
Hz
Hertz (cycles per second)
I
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
in.
inches
L
Logical address
an 8-bit number that uniquely identifies each VXIbus device in a system. It
defines a device’s A16 register address and indicates Commander/Servant
relationships.
LSB
Least Significant Bit
M
m
meter
MB
megabytes of memory