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Glossary
Universal Plug and Play - VISA
U Universal Plug and Play
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is an open industry standard that uses
Internet and Web protocols to enable devices such as PCs, peripherals,
intelligent appliances, and wireless devices to be plugged into a network
and automatically know about each other.
UPnP is an architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity
of PCs and intelligent devices or appliances. UPnP builds on Internet
standards and technologies, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and XML, to enable
LAN devices to automatically connect with one another and work
together.
With UPnP, when a user plugs a device into the network, the device will
configure itself, acquire a TCP/IP address, and use a discovery protocol
based on the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to announce
its presence on the network to other devices. UPnP devices use
Extensible Markup Language (XML) to establish a common language, or
"protocol negotiation", to talk to each other and determine capabilities.
V VEE
The Agilent Visual Engineering Environment, which is software used for
I/O application programming.
VISA
The Agilent Virtual Instrument Software Architecture library, which is
software used for I/O application programming.