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GPIB-410 User Manual
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© National Instruments Corp.
Abbreviations
The following are the abbreviations for units of measure used in this
manual:
A
ampere
C
Celsius
°
degree
Hz
hertz
hex
hexadecimal
in.
inch
K
kilobytes
KHz
kilohertz
MHz
megahertz
nsec
nanosecond
%
percent
V
volt
Acronyms
The following acronyms are used in this manual:
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BNC
referring to a coaxial connector
DMA
direct memory access
FIFO
first in, first out (referring to a memory buffer)
GPIB
General Purpose Interface (IEEE-488) Bus
IEEE-488
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Standard 488-1978, which defines the GPIB
I/O
input/output
IRQ
interrupt request line
LED
light-emitting diode
PIO
programmed I/O
RAM
random-access memory
ROM
read-only memory