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VME-MXI-2 User Manual
VXI
plug&play for the
VME-MXI-2
Chapter
6
This chapter describes the contents of the VXIplug&play disk that
came with your VME-MXI-2 kit. The disk contains a VXIplug&play
soft front panel and a VXIplug&play knowledge base file.
VME-MXI-2 VXI
plug&play Soft Front Panel
The VXIplug&play soft front panel that comes with your VME-MXI-2
kit complies with VXIplug&play document VPP-7, Soft Front Panel
Specification. This section describes the options you can configure
using the soft front panel.
Use the soft front panel to configure programmable features on the
VME-MXI-2. Because this same soft front panel also works with the
VXI-MXI-2, you can easily configure a hybrid VXI/VME system. The
settings that you change using the soft front panel are stored in the
user-configurable half of the EEPROM on the VME-MXI-2. As a
result, the changes remain intact through power cycles.
Installing the Soft Front Panel
To run the soft front panel, the host computer must be running the
Windows operating system and have the VTL/VISA I/O driver
language installed. If you are not using Windows and VTL/VISA,
you must follow the instructions in Appendix B, Programmable
Configurations, to access and modify the programmable features
because you will not be able to use the soft front panel.
To install the soft front panel on your system, go to the Windows
Program Manager’s File menu and click on the Run option. Type the
following command at the prompt
x: setup
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