National Instruments PXI NI PXI-8105 User Manual

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© National Instruments Corporation vii NI PXI-8105 User ManualAbout This ManualThis manual contains detailed instructions for installing and configuringyour National Instruments NI PXI-8105 embedded controller kit.How to Use the Documentation SetBegin by reading the NI PXI-8105 Installation Guide, a brief quick-startguide that describes how to install and get started with your controller.This manual, the NI PXI-8105 User Manual, contains more details aboutchanging the installation or configuration from the defaults and using thehardware.ConventionsThe following conventions appear in this manual:» 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.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.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. Italic text 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,programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,variables, filenames, and extensions.