National Instruments PCI-8331 Switch User Manual


 
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Glossary
Symbol Prefix Value
nnano10
–9
µ micro 10
–6
m milli 10
–3
k kilo 10
3
Mmega10
6
Symbols
° Degrees
Equal or greater than
Equal or less than
% Percent
B
bus the group of conductors that interconnect individual circuitry in a computer.
Typically, a bus is the expansion vehicle to which I/O or other devices are
connected. Examples of PC buses are the AT bus, NuBus, Micro Channel,
and EISA bus.
bus master a type of a plug-in board or controller with the ability to read and write
devices on the computer bus
C
CCelsius
clock hardware component that controls timing for reading from or writing to
groups
counter/timer a circuit that counts external pulses or clock pulses (timing)