National Instruments NI-6589, Getting Started Manual

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NI 6589 CLIP
Refer to the following table for the available NI 6589 CLIP items, and each CLIP
item's function and available signals.
Note All NI 6589 CLIP items allow individual clock output inversion.
CLIP Name Signals Description
NI 6589
Basic
Connector
CLIP
■
Sixteen bidirectional
data LVDS lines
■
Four LVDS PFI lines
■
One LVDS STROBE line
■
One LVDS clock output
signal
■
Four single-ended PFI
lines
■
One single-ended
clock input signal
Provides read/write access to all low-voltage
differential signal (LVDS) and single-ended
channels, where the channels are grouped by
connector. You can access the LVDS data and
direction lines using a U16 data type in which each
bit position corresponds to an individual channel.
You can access the LVDS PFI lines and the single-
ended PFI lines using a Boolean control.
NI 6589
Serdes
Channel
CLIP
■
Sixteen bidirectional
data LVDS lines
■
Four LVDS PFI lines
■
One LVDS STROBE line
■
One LVDS clock output
signal
■
Four single-ended PFI
lines
■
One single-ended
clock input signal
Provides read/write access to all LVDS and single-
ended channels using a channel-based interface.
You can access the LVDS data and PFI channels
using a U16 data type in which the top six bits are
unused. Each LVDS line, PFI line, and clock output is
connected to an OSERDES or ISERDES block that
serializes or deserializes, respectively, the signal by
a factor of 10 by default. During acquisition, the
NI 6589 reads or writes ten bits of data per channel
to or from the ISERDES or OSERDES blocks. All
OSERDES and ISERDES blocks are set to double
data rate (DDR) mode.
NI 6589
Serdes
Connector
CLIP
■
Sixteen bidirectional
data LVDS lines
■
Four LVDS PFI lines
■
One LVDS STROBE line
Provides read/write access to all LVDS and single-
ended channels, where the channels are grouped
by connector. This CLIP conveys parallel data at
high speeds. You can access the LVDS data and
direction lines using a U16 data type, you can
access the LVDS PFI lines using a U8 data type, and
you can access the single-ended PFI lines using a
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