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NI PXIe-1085 Series User Manual
Note
Selecting any non-disabled routing automatically reserves the line in all
trigger buses being routed to. If you are using NI-DAQmx, it will reserve and route
trigger lines for you, so you won’t have to route trigger lines manually.
Complete the following steps to configure trigger routings in MAX.
1.
In the
Configuration
tree, select the chassis in which you want to route trigger lines.
2.
In the right-hand pane, select the
Trigger Routing
tab near the bottom.
3.
For each trigger line, select
Route Right
,
Route Outward From Middle
, or
Route Left
to route triggers on that line in the described direction, or select
Disabled
for the default
behavior with no manual routing.
4.
Click the
Apply
button.
Using System Configuration and Initialization
Files
The PXI Express specification allows many combinations of PXI Express chassis and system
modules. To assist system integrators, the manufacturers of PXI Express chassis and system
modules must document the capabilities of their products. The minimum documentation
requirements are contained in
.ini
files, which consist of ASCII text. System integrators,
configuration utilities, and device drivers can use these
.ini
files.
The capability documentation for the NI PXIe-1085 Series chassis is contained in the
chassis.ini
file on the software media that comes with the chassis. The information in this
file is combined with information about the system controller to create a single system
initialization file called
pxisys.ini
(PXI System Initialization). The system controller
manufacturer either provides a
pxisys.ini
file for the particular chassis model that contains
the system controller or provides a utility that can read an arbitrary
chassis.ini
file and
generate the corresponding
pxisys.ini
file. System controllers from NI provide the
pxisys.ini
file for the NI PXIe-1085 Series chassis, so you should not need to use the
chassis.ini
file. Refer to the documentation provided with the system controller or
to
ni.com/support
for more information on
pxisys.ini
and
chassis.ini
files.
Device drivers and other utility software read the
pxisys.ini
file to obtain system
information. The device drivers should have no need to directly read the
chassis.ini
file. For
detailed information regarding initialization files, refer to the PXI Express specification at
www.pxisa.org
.
