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DAQ-STC Technical Reference Manual
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual:
<>
Angle brackets containing numbers separated by an ellipsis represent a
range of values associated with a bit or signal name—for example,
ACH<0..7> stands for ACH0 through ACH7.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts you
to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a warning, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid being electrically shocked.
bold
Bold text denotes the names of menu items, or dialog box buttons or
options.
bold italic
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
device
Device refers to any hardware that contains DAQ-STC.
italic
Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a key
concept.
module
Module refers to each functional group in the DAQ-STC, as shown in
Figure 1-3,
.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally 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 for statements and
comments taken from programs.
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