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About This Manual
The
NI 6124/6154 User Manual
contains information about using the
National Instruments S Series NI 6124 and NI 6154 data acquisition (DAQ)
devices with NI-DAQmx 8.8 and later.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
<>
Angle brackets that contain numbers separated by an ellipsis represent
a range of values associated with a bit or signal name—for example,
AO <3..0>.
»
The
»
symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence
File»Page Setup»Options
directs you to
pull down the
File
menu, select the
Page Setup
item, and select
Options
from 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 to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
When this symbol is marked on a
product, refer to the
Read Me First: Safety and Radio-Frequency
Interference
document for information about precautions to take.
bold
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click 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. Italic text 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.
Platform
Text in this font denotes a specific platform and indicates that the text
following it applies only to that platform.
