Glossary
Getting Started with Your VXIpc 800/700
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P
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect. The PCI bus is a high-performance
32-bit or 64-bit bus with multiplexed address and data lines.
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
POSC
Power On Self Configuration
R
RBD
Register-Based Device
register-based device
A Servant-only device that supports VXIbus configuration registers.
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
retry
An acknowledge by a destination that signifies that the cycle did not
complete and should be repeated
S
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
Protocol
accessible to both a client and a server. The memory block operates as
a message buffer for communications.
SIMM
Single In-line Memory Module
