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Glossary
© National Instruments Corporation G-5 NI PXI-8110 User Manual
M
m Meters.
master A functional part of a PXI device that initiates data transfers on the
PXI backplane. A transfer can be either a read or a write.
MB Megabytes of memory.
MTBF Mean time between failure.
MTTR Mean time to repair.
N
NI-488 or NI-488.2 The National Instruments software for GPIB systems.
NI-DAQ The National Instruments software for data acquisition instruments.
NI-VISA The National Instruments implementation of the VISA standard—An
interface-independent software that provides a unified programming
interface for VXI, GPIB, and serial instruments.
NMI Non-maskable interrupt—High-priority interrupt that cannot be disabled.
It is used to report malfunctions such as parity, bus and math coprocessor
errors.
P
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect—The PCI bus is a high-performance
32-bit or 64-bit bus with multiplexed address and data lines.
PCI Express Peripheral Component Interconnect Express—A faster, serialized version
of the PCI bus.
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
peripheral Any hardware device connected to a computer, such as a monitor,
keyboard, printer, plotter, disk or tape drive, graphics tablet, scanner,
mouse, and so on.
POSC Power On Self Configuration.