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PCI-1200 User Manual x © National Instruments Corporation
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual:
<> Angle brackets enclose the name of a key on the keyboard—for example,
<shift>. Angle brackets containing numbers separated by an ellipsis
represent a range of values associated with a bit or signal name—for
example, DBIO<3..0>.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts you
to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a warning, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid being electrically shocked.
bold Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, or dialog box buttons
or options.
bold italic Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
to a key concept.
Macintosh Macintosh refers to all Macintosh computers with PCI bus, unless
otherwise noted.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter
from the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax
examples. This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,
directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions,
operations, variables, filenames and extensions, and for statements and
comments taken from programs.
PC PC refers to all IBM PC/XT, PC/AT and compatible computers with
PCI bus, unless otherwise noted.
NI-DAQ NI-DAQ is used in this manual to refer to the NI-DAQ software for PC or
Macintosh computers, unless otherwise noted.
SCXI SCXI stands for Signal Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentation and is
a National Instruments product line designed to perform front-end signal
conditioning for National Instruments plug-in DAQ boards.
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