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NI PXI-1010 Chassis User Manual
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Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
»
The
»
symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence
File»Page Setup»Options
directs you to
pull down the
File
menu, select the
Page Setup
item, and select
Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
bold
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software,
such as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes
parameter names.
italic
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter 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, operations,
variables, filenames, and extensions.
NI-DAQ
NI-DAQ is used throughout this manual to refer to the NI-DAQ software.
PXI chassis
PXI chassis or simply
chassis
refers to the PXI-1010.
SCXIbus
SCXIbus refers to the backplane in the chassis SCXI subsystem. 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.
Slot 0
Slot 0 refers to the power supply and control circuitry in the SCXI
subsystem.
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