Chapter 6
NI-VXI Configuration Utility
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The default timeout value is 1 ms. If the Enable MXI-2 Auto Retry option
is enabled, you should use a MXI Bus Timeout of 1 ms or greater.
MXI CLK10
The PCI-MXI-2 is capable of either receiving or driving the MXIbus
CLK10 signal.
You can use the Drive or Receive options of the MXI CLK10 feature to
control the direction of the MXIbus CLK10 signal. By default all MXI-2
boards receive MXI CLK10 (the Receive option is active); therefore, you
must choose one board on your MXI-2 bus to drive CLK10 by changing the
value of the option to Drive. For most configurations, it is recommended to
choose the System Controller as the CLK10 source for simplicity. The only
exception you may want to make is if you want your triggers synchronous
to the VXI 10 MHz clock.
Caution
Do not configure more than one MXIbus device to drive MXIbus CLK10. Having
a second device driving MXIbus CLK10 could damage the device.
MXI Transfer Limit
Use this feature to control how many data transfers the PCI-MXI-2 will
perform on the MXIbus before releasing it to another master device that is
requesting use of the bus. The default setting holds the MXIbus for an
unlimited period of time.
The other options you can choose from are 256, 64, and 16 transfers. If you
do not want the PCI-MXI-2 to hold the MXIbus for an unlimited period of
time, you can use this option to select one of these values.
MXI-2 Auto Retry
The PCI-MXI-2 has an automatic retry feature for cycles that map from the
MXI bus to the PCI bus. By default this option is enabled.
Normally, when a cycle maps from the MXI bus to the PCI bus, any retry
response received on the PCI bus is passed to the MXI bus. When the
MXI-2 auto retry feature is enabled, the PCI-MXI-2 automatically retries
any PCI cycle when the PCI host responds to a cycle with a retry. The
PCI-MXI-2 automatically continues to retry the PCI cycle until it receives
either a DTACK or BERR response, which it then passes to the MXI bus.
This is the default situation because many external masters do not support
VXI/MXI retries. If the external master does support retries, it may be
beneficial to disable the MXI-2 auto retry feature. With this feature