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PCI/cPCI-6208/6216-GL Series
User’s Manual
LSB - Least Significant Byte
MATLAB® - Matrix Laboratory, a numerical computing environ-
ment and programming language
MHz - Megahertz (one million hertz)
mm - millimeter
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS - Operating System
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI Express (PCIe or PCI-E) - An I/O interconnect bus standard
that expands on and doubles the data transfer rates of original PCI
PCR - PCI Configuration Registers
PnP - Plug and Play
PXI - PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation, a modular instrumenta-
tion platforms
SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic, digital circuits built from bipolar
junction transistors and resistors.
V - Volt, a derived unit of electrical potential difference
VDC - Volts of Continuous Current
VEE™ - Visual Engineering Environment, a visual and dataflow
programming language and development environment
X86 - A generic term that refers to the CISC (complex instruction
set computer) architecture, the most commercially successful cen-
tral processing unit (CPU) architecture in modern computing.