National Instruments 800 Series - Manual (Page 96)

Glossary
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IDE Integrated Drive Electronics. Denotes the most common interface to the
hard drive on PCs.
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I/O input/output; the techniques, media, and devices used to achieve
communication between machines and users
instrument driver A set of routines designed to control a specific instrument or family of
instruments, and any necessary related files for LabWindows/CVI or
LabVIEW
INT interrupt
INTA PCI interrupt A
INTB PCI interrupt B
INTC PCI interrupt C
INTD PCI interrupt D
interrupt A means for a device to request service from another device
interrupt handler A VMEbus functional module that detects interrupt requests generated
by interrupters and responds to those requests by requesting status and
identify information
interrupt level The relative priority at which a device can interrupt
IRQ* Interrupt signal
ISA Industry Standard Architecture denotes a common expansion bus used
in PCs
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KB kilobytes of memory