National Instruments VXI-USB User Manual

© National Instruments Corporation

This manual contains instructions for installing and configuring the 
VXI-USB interface kit. It also discusses how to start developing your 
VXI/VME application.

The following conventions appear in this manual:

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 

 section in Appendix A, 

, for 

information about precautions to take.

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 text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction 
to a key concept. This font 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.

Italic text in this font denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value 
that you must supply.