Programming instructions

Glossary
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isolation A type of signal conditioning in which you isolate the transducer signals
from the computer for safety purposes. This protects you and your
computer from large voltage spikes and makes sure the measurements from
the DAQ device are not affected by differences in ground potentials.
K
Kwords 1,024 words of memory.
L
Lab/1200 boards Boards, such as the Lab-PC-1200 and the DAQCard-1200, which use the
8253 type counter/timer chip.
LabVIEW Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench.
latched digital I/O A type of digital acquisition/generation where a device or module accepts
or transfers data after a digital pulse has been received.
Also called
handshaked digital I/O.
Legacy MIO board Boards, such as the AT-MIO-16, which typically are configured with
jumpers and switches and are not Plug and Play compatible. They also use
the 9513 type counter/timer chip.
limit settings The maximum and minimum voltages of the analog signals you are
measuring or generating.
linearization A type of signal conditioning in which LabVIEW linearizes the voltage
levels from transducers, so the voltages can be scaled to measure physical
phenomena.
LSB Least Significant Bit.
M
MB Megabytes of memory. 1 MB is equal to 1,024 KB.
memory buffer
See
buffer.