Glossary
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Non-Slot 0 device
A device configured for installation in any slot in a VXIbus mainframe
other than Slot 0. Installing such a device into Slot 0 can damage the
device, the VXIbus backplane, or both.
P
PC AT
Personal Computer Advanced Technology
propagation
The transmission of signal through a computer system.
R
Register-Based
A Servant-only device that supports VXIbus configuration registers.
device
Register-Based devices are typically controlled by Message-Based devices
via device-dependent register reads and writes.
resman
The name of the National Instruments Resource Manager in NI-VXI bus
interface software. See Resource Manager.
Resource Manager
A Message-Based Commander located at Logical Address 0, which
provides configuration management services such as address map
configuration, Commander and Servant mappings, and self-test and
diagnostic management.
RM
See Resource Manager.
S
seconds
Servant
A device controlled by a Commander; there are Message-Based and
Register-Based Servants.
Shared Memory
A communication protocol that uses a block of memory that is accessible
Protocol
to both a client and a server. The memory block operates as a message
buffer for communications.
shell
An interactive program for commands.
shell script
The commands used to perform batch processing.
slave
A functional part of a MXI/VME/VXIbus device that detects data transfer
cycles initiated by a VMEbus master and responds to the transfers when
the address specifies one of the device's registers.
slave-mode
operation
A device is in slave mode it if is responding to a bus cycle.