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PXI

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PXI-PCI 8330 Series
User Manual

MXI-3 Multi-System Extension Interface for PCI,
CompactPCI, and PXI Bus Computers

PXI-PCI 8330 Series User Manual

July 2000 Edition

Part Number 370251A-01

Summary of Contents for 8330 Series

Page 1: ...PXI PXI PCI 8330 Series User Manual MXI 3 Multi System Extension Interface for PCI CompactPCI and PXI Bus Computers PXI PCI 8330 Series User Manual July 2000 Edition Part Number 370251A 01 ...

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Page 3: ...cts malfunctions or service failures caused by owner s failure to follow the National Instruments installation operation or maintenance instructions owner s modification of the product owner s abuse misuse or negligent acts and power failure or surges fire flood accident actions of third parties or other events outside reasonable control Copyright Under the copyright laws this publication may not ...

Page 4: ...Communications DOC Changes or modifications not expressly approved by National Instruments could void the user s authority to operate the equipment under the FCC Rules Class A Federal Communications Commission This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protectio...

Page 5: ... Directives Readers in the EU EEC EEA must refer to the Manufacturer s Declaration of Conformity DoC for information pertaining to the CE Mark compliance scheme The Manufacturer includes a DoC for most every hardware product except for those bought for OEMs if also available from an original manufacturer that also markets in the EU or where compliance is not required as for electrically benign app...

Page 6: ... 1 2 Unpacking 1 2 Chapter 2 Installation Software Installation 2 1 Hardware Installation 2 2 Installing a PCI MXI 3 Card 2 2 Installing a PXI MXI 3 Card 2 3 Cabling 2 5 Chapter 3 Hardware Overview Functional Overview 3 1 MXI 3 Chassis Expansion 3 2 Functional Unit Descriptions 3 4 National Instruments MXI 3 ASIC 3 4 Serial Transmitter 3 5 Serial Receiver 3 5 High Speed Serial Data Connector HSSDC...

Page 7: ... 2 1 Installing the PCI MXI 3 2 3 Figure 2 2 PXI MXI 3 Before Installation as Secondary 2 5 Figure 3 1 MXI 3 Block Diagram 3 2 Figure 3 2 Basic MXI 3 Configurations 3 3 Figure 3 3 Additional MXI 3 Configurations 3 4 Tables Table 3 1 National Instruments MXI 3 Cables 3 5 Table 3 2 Molex and Methode MXI 3 Fiber Optic Cables 3 6 ...

Page 8: ...ke to avoid being electrically shocked bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on 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 This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value that you must supply monospace T...

Page 9: ...ion that you might find helpful as you read this manual Set Up Your MXI 3 System Your computer or chassis documentation PXI Specification revision 1 0 PCI Specification revision 2 2 PCI PCI Bridge Architecture Specification revision 1 0 PICMG CompactPCI 2 0 R2 1 specification PXI chassis and documentation PXI bus systems only ...

Page 10: ...separate buses with either a copper or fiber optic data link capable of 1 5 Gbit s serial data rates With the MXI 3 system you can do the following Control a PXI CompactPCI backplane with either a PCI or PXI CompactPCI host system Increase the available number CompactPCI or PXI slots for your application Physically separate the measurement or automation system from the host PC Combine PCI CompactP...

Page 11: ...I MXI 3 card and a PCI MXI 3 card Copper or fiber optic MXI 3 cable Documentation Set Up Your MXI 3 System and Getting Started with Your MXI 3 System Primary bus A computer with a PCI backplane or a PXI embedded controller in a PXI CompactPCI chassis Secondary bus A PXI CompactPCI chassis Software MXI 3 Software Installation Diskette for Windows 2000 NT4 9x Unpacking Your MXI 3 cards are shipped i...

Page 12: ...ive application that installs the MXI 3 software and configures your system for use with the MXI 3 card Follow these steps to perform the installation Note You can quit the setup program at any time by choosing the Cancel option 1 Insert the disk labeled MXI 3 Software for Windows 2000 NT4 9x 2 Select Run from the Start menu and type the following text where X is the drive letter of your floppy dr...

Page 13: ... installing the PCI MXI 3 device 2 Remove the top cover or access port to the PCI bus 3 Select any available PCI expansion slot 4 Locate the metal bracket that covers the cut out in the back panel of the computer for the slot you have selected Remove and save the bracket retaining screw and the bracket cover 5 Touch the metal part of the power supply case inside the computer to discharge any stati...

Page 14: ... damage while you install the module 2 Select a slot for the PXI MXI 3 card For use in secondary PXI bus Choose the controller slot Slot 1 of your chassis This slot must support bus arbitration and bus mastering The secondary PXI MXI 3 can operate only in such a slot For use in primary PXI bus Choose any unused PXI or CompactPCI 5 V peripheral slot except Slot 1 Slot 1 is reserved for the system c...

Page 15: ...andle as you insert the PXI MXI 3 card It will not insert properly unless the handle is in its downward position so that it does not interfere with the injector rail on the mainframe as shown in Figure 2 2 6 Hold the handle as you slowly slide the module into the chassis until the handle catches on the injector ejector rail 7 Raise the injector ejector handle until the module firmly seats into the...

Page 16: ...y and secondary MXI 3 cards If you are using a fiber optic cable be sure to remove the protective caps from the connectors Caution Do not remove the cable after the system is powered on Doing so may crash the system 2 Turn on the system containing your secondary MXI 3 card 3 Turn on the system containing your primary MXI 3 card For more information on cables see the MXI 3 Cable Options section in ...

Page 17: ...MXI 3 card interfaces to the PCI bus with the National Instruments MXI 3 ASIC The ASIC converts PCI transactions into a 20 bit wide parallel bus A parallel to serial converter transmits the 20 bit data as serial data at 1 5 Gbits s If you are using copper cable the system sends the serial data through the cable as a differential electrical signal If you are using fiber optic cable the system conve...

Page 18: ...ing them with a cable one PXI CompactPCI chassis can be expanded to two The PXI MXI 3 modules detect the slot in which they reside and automatically configure themselves as the primary or secondary bus interface Figure 3 2 shows the most basic MXI 3 configurations and Figure 3 3 shows other possible configurations P C I B u s P X I C P C I PCI PXI Interface Port Transmitter Port Receiver Port Seri...

Page 19: ...Because MXI 3 complies with the standard PCI to PCI bridging specification it can take advantage of a variety of other extension configurations Figure 3 3 shows how MXI 3 can be used to daisy chain multiple systems in row all under the control of the primary system in this case a PC PC to PXI CompactPCI PXI CompactPCI to PXI CompactPCI ...

Page 20: ...struments MXI 3 ASIC The MXI 3 ASIC which contains most of the logic in the two board system is a PCI master slave device using the PCI PCI bridge register set MXI 3 uses data queues to store data for transmission and also uses data queues to store received data waiting for access to the target PCI bus MXI 3 ASIC transmits data to the parallel to serial converters and receives data from the serial...

Page 21: ...sembly interfaces the electrical data to the copper serial cable High Speed Serial Data Connector HSSDC Cable The HSSDC 8 position cable assembly is the copper medium through which the serial data is transferred MXI 3 Cable Options Cables are available for both the copper and fiber optic versions of MXI 3 Copper links are the least expensive interconnect and can span up to 10 meters between system...

Page 22: ...ramic ferrule A standard PC finish is used on both ends Contact Molex through its Web site at http www molex com or at Molex Incorporated 2222 Wellington Court Lisle IL 60532 1682 USA 1 800 786 6539 Contact Methode Electronics Inc through its Web site at http www methode com or at Methode Electronics Inc 7444 West Wilson Avenue Chicago IL 60706 USA 1 800 323 6858 708 867 9600 FAX 708 867 9130 Tabl...

Page 23: ...C unless otherwise stated Physical Dimensions PCI 10 7 by 17 5 cm 4 2 by 6 9 in PXI 10 0 by 16 0 cm 3 9 by 6 3 in Maximum cable lengths Copper 10 m Fiber optic 200 m Environment Operating temperature 0 to 50 C Storage temperature 20 to 70 C Operating relative humidity 10 to 90 noncondensing Storage relative humidity 5 to 95 noncondensing Emissions EN 55011 1991 Group 1 Class A at 10 m FCC Class A ...

Page 24: ...ss the latest example programs system configurators tutorials technical news as well as a community of developers ready to share their own techniques Customer Education National Instruments provides a number of alternatives to satisfy your training needs from self paced tutorials videos and interactive CDs to instructor led hands on courses at locations around the world Visit the Customer Educatio...

Page 25: ... Web sites from the Worldwide Offices section of www ni com Branch office web sites provide up to date contact information support phone numbers e mail addresses and current events If you have searched the technical support resources on our Web site and still cannot find the answers you need contact your local office or National Instruments corporate Phone numbers for our worldwide offices are lis...

Page 26: ...cuit a proprietary semiconductor component designed and manufactured to perform a set of specific functions for a specific customer B bus The group of conductors that interconnect individual circuitry in a computer Typically a bus is the expansion vehicle to which I O or other devices are connected Examples of PC buses are the AT bus NuBus Micro Channel and EISA bus bus master a type of a plug in ...

Page 27: ...hod by which data can be transferred to from computer memory from to a device or memory on the bus while the processor does something else DMA is the fastest method of transferring data to from computer memory I IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers M MITE MXI Interfaces To Everything a custom ASIC designed by National Instruments that implements the PCI bus interface The MITE sup...

Page 28: ...also used in PXI cards PCI PCI bridge A device that transparently expands the PCI bus on a computer motherboard to another bus segment in the same machine The bridge expands the number of PCI expansion slots but remains transparent to the end user PXI Stands for PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation PXI is an open specification that builds off the CompactPCI specification by adding instrumentation sp...

Page 29: ...anual ix related x F functional unit descriptions 3 4 H HSSDC High Speed Serial Data Connector Cable 3 5 HSSDC High Speed Serial Data Connector Receptacle 3 5 I installation cable options 3 5 cabling 2 5 hardware 2 2 of a PCI MXI 3 card 2 2 of a PXI MXI 3 card 2 3 software 2 1 M MXI 3 block diagram 3 2 cable options 3 5 chassis expansion 3 2 definition 1 1 overview 3 1 MXI 3 ASIC 3 4 MXI 3 system ...

Page 30: ... PCI PCI bridge 1 2 PXI MXI 3 card installation 2 3 installation figure 2 5 R related documentation x S serial receiver 3 5 serial transmitter 3 5 software 2 1 software transparency 1 2 specifications A 1 system integration B 1 T technical support resources B 1 W Web support B 1 worldwide technical support B 2 ...

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