Chapter 1
Introduction
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PXI-1020 and PXI-1025 Chassis Support
The PXI-8150B Series controller is designed to directly interface to
PXI-1020 and PXI-1025 chassis. This interface contains the signals
required to control a TFT LCD, an IDE device, a PS/2 keyboard, and a
PS/2 mouse.
Because the keyboard/mouse controller on the PXI-8150B Series supports
only one keyboard and one mouse at a time, the controller has two switches
you can use to control whether to enable either the keyboard and mouse
ports on the front panel of the PXI-8150B or the built-in chassis devices.
Refer to the Keyboard and Mouse section in Chapter 3,
Configuration and Installation
, for switch settings.
PXI-1020 Chassis
The PXI-1020 chassis currently does not contain a built-in keyboard.
When using the PXI-8150B Series controller with the PXI-1020 chassis,
the LCD may be dimmed through software. The software is located on your
hard drive in the
C:\Images\PXI815
xB\LCD
directory. Also, with this
chassis you can select whether the LCD is enabled while booting or off
until the operating system loads and software turns it on. Refer to the
LCD Output section in Chapter 3,
PXI-8150B Series Configuration and
, for the jumper settings.
Optional Equipment
You can contact National Instruments to order the following optional
equipment:
•
Enhanced parallel port adapter cable
•
Single-shielded 2 m GPIB cable
National Instruments Software
National Instruments has developed several software kits that you can use
with the PXI-8150B Series. The software is already installed on your hard
drive.
The NI-488.2M software kit gives you access to the industry-standard
NI-488.2M software for controlling external GPIB instruments through the
GPIB port on the front panel of the PXI-8156B. The GPIB interface is fully
compatible with the NI-488.2M driver for a variety of operating systems.
