Glossary
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G
gauge
A control used to input or display numerical data.
GPIB
General Purpose Interface Bus. The standard bus used for controlling
electronic instruments with a computer. Also called IEEE 488 bus because
it is defined by ANSI/IEEE Standards 488-1978, 488.1-1987, and
488.2-1987.
graph
A 2D or 3D display of one or more plots.
H
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol. Protocol based on TCP/IP, which is used to
download Web pages from an HTTP server to a Web browser.
I
IEEE 488
Shortened notation for ANSI/IEEE Standards 488-1978, 488.1-1987,
and 488.2-1987.
See also
GPIB.
IMAQ Vision
National Instruments image acquisition and analysis software that you
can use to acquire images from National Instruments image acquisition
(IMAQ) boards, display them in your program, perform interactive viewer
operations, and analyze the images to extract information.
indicator
A control in read-only mode.
installer
Software program that copies program, system, and other necessary files to
computers.
instrument driver
Library of functions to control and use one specific physical instrument.
Also a set of functions that adds specific functionality to an application.
Instrument I/O
Assistant
Assists in writing code to communicate with devices such as serial,
Ethernet, or GPIB instruments. The Instrument I/O Assistant provides a
user interface within the Visual Studio .NET environment. You use the
Instrument I/O Assistant to interactively write commands to a device, read
data that the device returns, and specify how to parse the response.
