National Instruments NI 781xR - Manual (Page 44)

Glossary
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E
EEPROM Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory—ROM that can be
erased with an electrical signal and reprogrammed.
F
FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array.
FPGA VI A configuration that is downloaded to the FPGA and that determines the
functionality of the hardware.
G
glitch An unwanted signal excursion of short duration that is usually unavoidable.
H
h Hour.
HIL Hardware-in-the-loop.
Hz Hertz.
I
I/O Input/output—The transfer of data to/from a computer system involving
communications channels, operator interface devices, and/or data
acquisition and control interfaces.
INL Relative accuracy.
L
LabVIEW Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench. LabVIEW is a
graphical programming language that uses icons instead of lines of text to
create programs.
LSB Least significant bit.