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© National Instruments Corp. G-1 STD-GPIB for Windows
Glossary
Prefix Meaning Value
m-
c-
k-
M-
milli-
centi-
kilo-
mega-
10
-3
10
-2
10
3
10
6
° degrees
% percent
A amperes
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
C Celsius
CPU central processing unit
DMA direct memory access
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
FCC Federal Communications Commission
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
hex hexadecimal
Hz hertz
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
in. inches
I/O input/output
IRQ interrupt request
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
m meters
MB megabytes of memory
PC personal computer
RAM random-access memory
s seconds
VDC volts direct current