Chapter 2
Installation and Configuration
NI PXIe-8103 User Manual
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The
manuals
directory contains quick reference guides, technical
reference manuals, and National Instruments software manuals, all in
Adobe Acrobat format. To access any manual, change your directory to
c:\images\manuals
and list the contents of that directory. You will see
several files, one corresponding to each peripheral.
The
os
directory contains a subdirectory corresponding to the operating
system installed on your computer.
The rest of the directories correspond to each peripheral in your system.
Within each of these directories are the drivers for the peripherals. These
files and directories are copied exactly from the manufacturer distribution
disks, so the naming conventions vary from peripheral to peripheral.
PXI Express Features
PXI Express Trigger Connectivity
The SMB connector on the NI PXIe-8103 front panel can connect to or
from any PXI Express backplane trigger line. A trigger allocation process
is needed to prevent two resources from connecting to the same trigger line,
resulting in the trigger being double-driven and possibly damaging the
hardware. At the time of this manual’s publication, this software is not yet
available for Windows. Contact National Instruments for more
information.
PXI Chassis Configuration
The PXI Platform Services software included with your controller
automatically identifies your PXI Express system components to generate
a
pxiesys.ini
file. You can configure your entire PXI system and
identify PXI-1 chassis through Measurement & Automation Explorer
(MAX), included with your controller. MAX creates the
pxiesys.ini
and
pxisys.ini
file, which define your PXI system parameters. MAX
also provides an interface to route and reserve triggers so dynamic routing,
through drivers such as DAQmx, avoids double-driving and potentially
damaging trigger lines. For more information about routing and reserving
PXI triggers, refer to KnowledgeBase 3TJDOND8 at
ni.com/support
.
The configuration steps for single or multiple-chassis systems are the same.
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