National Instruments NI-DNET User Manual

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Glossary

NI-DNET User Manual

G-4

ni.com

H

hex

Hexadecimal

Hz

Hertz

I

I/O connection

Connection used for exchange of physical input/output (sensor/activator)
data, as well as other control-oriented data.

in.

inches

individual polling

A polled I/O communication scheme in which each polled slave
communicates at its own individual rate.

instance

A specific instance of a given class. For example, a blue square of 4 inches
per side would be one instance of the class Squares.

ISO

International Standards Organization

K

KB

Kilobytes of memory

L

LabVIEW

Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench

LED

light-emitting diode

local

Within NI-DNET, anything that exists on the same host (personal
computer) as the NI-DNET driver.

M

m

meter

MAC ID

Media access control layer identifier. In DeviceNet, a device’s MAC ID
represents its address on the DeviceNet network.

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