Glossary – National Instruments 800 Series User Manual

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Glossary

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A

Amperes

address

Character code that identifies a specific location (or series of locations)
in memory

address space

A set of 2

n

memory locations differentiated from other such sets in VXI/

VMEbus systems by six addressing lines known as address modifiers. n
is the number of address lines required to uniquely specify a byte
location in a given space. Valid numbers for n are 16, 24, and 32. In
VME/VXI, because there are six address modifiers, there are 64
possible address spaces.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ASIC

application-specific integrated circuit

Prefix

Meaning

Value

n-

nano-

10

–9

µ-

micro-

10

–6

m-

milli-

10

–3

k-

kilo-

10

3

M-

mega-

10

6

G-

giga-

10

9

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