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Table 7.  

NI PXIe-4610 Gain Accuracy Under Calibration Conditions

Input Signal Source

Gain Accuracy (±dB)

Unadjusted

0.031

Adjusted*

0.011

*

Input signal source gain adjusted using the gain calibration constant stored in the EEPROM.

Table 8.  

NI PXIe-4610 Residual Offset Under Calibration Conditions

Residual Offset

±1 mV

Summary of Contents for PXIe-4610

Page 1: ...l Setup 5 Verification 5 Gain and Residual Offset Verification 6 EEPROM Update 9 Accuracy Under Calibration Conditions 9 World Wide Support and Services 10 Software NI DAQmx 9 8 added support for the...

Page 2: ...ifications and calibration interval NI DAQmx Readme Operating system and application software support in NI DAQmx NI DAQmx Help Information about creating applications that use the NI DAQmx driver Lab...

Page 3: ...Gain and Residual Offset Verification If this instrument is unavailable use a digitizer capable of measuring 10 Vpk sine waves at 1 kHz with an amplitude uncertainty of 0 1 dB or less a linearity erro...

Page 4: ...onnecting the NI PXIe 4610 The NI PXIe 4610 provides connections for 2 channels Refer to Figure 1 for the connection pinout Figure 1 NI PXIe 4610 Pinout 1 OUT CH0 2 OUT CH0 3 OUT CH1 4 OUT CH1 5 IN CH...

Page 5: ...ime for all of the instruments and equipment according to the manufacturer instructions Ensure that the PXI PXI Express chassis fan speed is set to High that the fan filters are clean and that the emp...

Page 6: ...ctions 2 Configure the function generator as shown in Table 2 3 Enable the function generator 4 Enable the NI PXIe 4610 outputs Additional information about enabling the outputs is available in the NI...

Page 7: ...residual signal The residual offset is the average of the residual signal 10 Connect the DMM as shown in Figure 3 Figure 3 DMM Connections 11 Repeat steps 7 and 8 and record the amplitude of the acqu...

Page 8: ...ed are derived using the values in Table 7 20 Compare the recorded residual offset for each channel to the limits in Table 5 Note The test limits listed are derived using the values in Table 8 If the...

Page 9: ...rification section to calculate the UnadjustedGain of each channel for which you want to update the gain calibration constant c Call the DAQmx Adjust DSA Power Amplifier Calibration function for the N...

Page 10: ...most recent NI PXIe 4610 Specifications document at ni com manuals World Wide Support and Services The National Instruments website is your complete resource for technical support At ni com support y...

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