About This ManualPCI-6023E/6024E/6025E User Manualxii ©National Instruments Corporation• The Index contains an alphabetical list of key terms and topics in thismanual, including the page where you can find each one.Conventions Used in This ManualThe following conventions are used in this manual:<> Angle brackets enclose the name of a key on the keyboard—for example,. Angle brackets containing numbers separated by an ellipsisrepresent a range of values associated with a bit or signal name—forexample, DBIO<3..0>.♦ The ♦ symbol indicates that the text following it applies only to a specificproduct, a specific operating system, or a specific software version.This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts youto important information.This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advisesyou of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.bold Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, parameters, dialogboxes, dialog box buttons or options, icons, windows, Windows 95 tabs,or LEDs.bold italic Bold italic text denotes an activity objective, note, caution, or warning.italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introductionto a key concept. This font also denotes text from which you supply theappropriate word or value, as in Windows 3.x.monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enterfrom the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntaxexamples. 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 for statements andcomments taken from programs.NI-DAQ NI-DAQ refers to the NI-DAQ driver software for PC compatiblecomputers unless otherwise noted.PC Refers to all PC AT series computers with PCI bus unless otherwise noted.!
