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PCI/cPCI-6208/6216-GL Series
User’s Manual
A/mA - (Ampere/amp/milliampere) a unit of electric current, or
amount of electric charge per second
ADE - Application Development Environment
API - Application Programming Interface
ATE - Automatic Test Equipment
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System
bit - Binary digit, the basic unit of information storage in computing
CD/CD-ROM - Compact Disk/Compact Disk Read Only Memory
ch/CH/Chn - Channel
DA - Digital-to-Analog Conversion
DAQ - Data Acquisition
DC - Continuous Current
DI - Digital Input
DLL (.dll) - Dynamic-link libraries, a library subroutine file type and
common filename extension in Microsoft Windows.
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DMM - digital-multi-meters, an electronic measuring instrument
that combines several functions in one unit
DO - Digital Output
driver - A software component used to interact with hardware
devices
EXE (.exe) - A filename extension for executable files/programs
FAE - Field Application Engineer
HMI - Human-Machine Interface
I/O (IO) - Input / Output
IC - integrated circuit, a miniaturized electronic circuit
IRQ/SERIRQ - Interrupt Request / Serial Interrupt Request
LabVIEW™ - Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering
Workbench, a visual programming language for platforms and
development environments
LCR - Local Configuration Registers