National Instruments PXI-PCI 8330 Series - Manual (Page 7)

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About This Manual
This manual describes the features, functions, and operation of the
PXI-PCI 8330 Series. The four products in this series are the PCI-8330, the
PXI-8330, the PCI-8335, and the PXI-8335. The PXI-PCI 8330 Series
incorporates MXI-3 technology, which couples two physically separate
PCI, CompactPCI, or PXI buses with either a copper or fiber-optic data link
capable of 1.5 Gbytes/s serial data rates.
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.
This icon denotes a warning, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid being electrically shocked.
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.
monospace italic Italic text in this font denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value
that you must supply.
MXI-3 card MXI-3 card refers to both the PCI MXI-3 and PXI MXI-3 cards, unless
otherwise noted.