© 1997–2002 National Instruments Corp. All rights reserved.CVI™, LabVIEW™, Measurement Studio™, National Instruments™, NI™, ni.com™, and NI-DAQ™ are trademarks ofNational Instruments Corporation. Product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or trade names oftheir respective companies. For patents covering National Instruments products, refer to the appropriate location:Help»Patents in your software, the patents.txt file on your CD, or ni.com/patents.October 2002321562D-01WHERE TO START WITH THE NI 435XThis document explains how to begin using the National Instruments4350/4351 (NI 435X) high-precision data acquisition (DAQ) temperatureand voltage meters for PCMCIA, USB, PCI, and PXI/CompactPCI buses.ConventionsThe following conventions are used in this document:» The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box optionsto a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you topull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Optionsfrom the last dialog box.♦ The ♦ symbol indicates that the following text applies only to a specificproduct, a specific operating system, or a specific software version.This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take toavoid injury, data loss, or a system crash. When this symbol is marked onthe product, refer to the Read Me First: Safety and Radio-FrequencyInterference document, shipped with the product, for precautions to take.bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software, suchas menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes parameternames.italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introductionto a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a wordor value that you must supply.monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from thekeyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,ni.com