About This Manual
Getting Started with Your PXI-8150 Series
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How to Use This Documentation Set
Begin by reading this manual, Getting Started with Your PXI
Series for Windows 95/NT, for basic instructions on setting up the
PXI-8150. This is a brief quick-start manual that describes how to
get started with your kit using the default settings.
The PXI-8150 Series User Manual contains more details about
changing the hardware installation or configuration from the defaults,
and using the hardware.
Refer to the NI-VISA User Manual to learn about VISA and how to use
it in your system. The NI-VISA online help describes the attributes,
events, and operations you can use in NI-VISA. You can find this same
information in the NI-VISA Programmer Reference Manual. These two
manuals are available in the
c:\Vxipnp\Win
XX
\NIvisa\Manuals
directory (where
Win
XX
is either
Win95
or
WinNT
) under the names
NI-VISAUsersMan.pdf
and
NI-VISAProgrammersMan.pdf
. Use the
Acrobat Reader program, Version 3 or later, to open these files.
PXI-8156 users receive the NI-488.2M software kit, which includes
the NI-488.2M User Manual for Windows 95 and Windows NT and the
NI-488.2M Function Reference Manual for Win32. PXI-8155 users can
get this kit by ordering a PXI-GPIB interface module.
If you ordered either LabVIEW or LabWindows
™
/CVI, you receive full
documentation along with a configuration disk to unlock and access
these application programming environments, which are already
installed on your hard drive.
