National Instruments PXI NI 8171 Series - Manual (Page 9)

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About This Manual
This manual contains detailed instructions for installing and configuring
your National Instruments NI 8171 series embedded computer kit. The
NI 8171 series includes the NI 8176, NI 8175, and NI 8174 embedded PXI
computers.
How to Use the Documentation Set
Begin by reading the NI 8171 Series Installation Guide, a brief quick-start
guide that describes how to install and get started with your controller.
This manual, the NI 8171 Series User Manual , contains more details about
changing the installation or configuration from the defaults and using the
hardware.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software,
such as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes
parameter names.
italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.
monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables, filenames and extensions, and code excerpts.
NI 8171 series The terms NI 8171 series and NI 8171 refer to a series of 3U PXI
controllers. Currently, this series consists of the NI 8174, NI 8175, and
NI 8176.