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© National Instruments Corp. Glossary-1 NI-488.2 User Manual for Windows
Glossary
A
acceptor handshake Listeners use this GPIB interface function to receive data, and
all devices use it to receive commands. See source handshake
and handshake.
access board The GPIB board that controls and communicates with the
devices on the bus that are attached to it.
ANSI American National Standards Institute.
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
asynchronous An action or event that occurs at an unpredictable time with
respect to the execution of a program.
automatic serial polling A feature of the NI-488.2 software in which serial polls
(autopolling) are executed automatically by the driver whenever a device
asserts the GPIB SRQ line.
B
base I/O address See I/O address.
BIOS Basic Input/Output System.
board-level function A rudimentary function that performs a single operation.
Prefix Meaning Value
n-
µ-
m-
k-
M-
nano-
micro-
milli-
kilo-
mega-
10
-9
10
-6
10
-3
10
3
10
6