User manual

Signal Analysis PICtail™ Daughter Board User’s Guide
DS51476A-page 2  2004 Microchip Technology Inc.
Conventions Used in This Guide
This manual uses the following documentation conventions:
DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
Documentation Updates
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Signal Analysis PICtail Daughter Board User’s Guide and other Microchip tools are
constantly evolving to meet customer needs, some actual dialogs and/or tool
descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site to
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Documentation Numbering Conventions
Documents are numbered with a “DS” number. The number is located on the bottom of
each page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS Number
is: DSXXXXXA, where:
Description Represents Examples
Code (Courier font):
Plain characters Sample code
Filenames and paths
#define START
c:\autoexec.bat
Angle brackets: < > Variables <label>, <exp>
Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments MPASMWIN [main.asm]
Curly brackets and pipe
character: { | }
Choice of mutually exclusive argu-
ments; An OR selection
errorlevel {0|1}
Lower case characters
in quotes
Type of data
"filename"
Ellipses... Used to imply (but not show) addi-
tional text that is not relevant to the
example
list
[
"list_option...,
"list_option"]
0xnnn A hexadecimal number where n is a
hexadecimal digit
0xFFFF, 0x007A
Italic characters A variable argument; it can be either a
type of data (in lower case characters)
or a specific example (in upper case
characters).
char isascii (char,
ch);
Interface (Arial font):
Underlined, italic text
with right arrow
A menu selection from the menu bar File > Save
Bold characters A window or dialog button to click OK, Cancel
Characters in angle
brackets < >
A key on the keyboard <Tab>, <Ctrl-C>
Documents (Arial font):
Italic characters Referenced books MPLAB IDE User’s Guide
XXXXX = The document number.
A = The revision level of the document.