Chapter 1
Introduction
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National Instruments Corporation
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Figure 1-2 illustrates the architecture of the CPU board and the I/O board.
Figure 1-2.
NI PXIe-8130 CPU Board and I/O Board
National Instruments Software
National Instruments has developed several software tools you can use with
the NI PXIe-8130.
National Instruments’ hardware and software work together to help you
make the most of your PXI Express system. The LabVIEW, Measurement
Studio, and LabWindows
™
/CVI
™
application development environments
combine with leading hardware drivers such as NI-DAQmx to provide
exceptional control of NI hardware. Instrument drivers are available at
ni.com/idnet
to simplify communication with instruments over a variety
of busses.
LabVIEW is a powerful and easy-to-use graphical programming
environment you can use to acquire data from thousands of different
instruments including USB, IEEE 488.2, VXI, serial, PLCs, and plug-in
boards. LabVIEW helps you convert acquired data into meaningful results
using powerful data analysis routines. Add-on tools provide additional
NVIDIA
MCP55 Pro
2.3 GHz
Turion
DVI
Video
ExpressCard
x1 PCIE
USB 2.0
Trigger
SMB
Super I/O
Parallel
Serial
x4 PCIE
x4 PCIE
x4 PCIE
x4 PCIE
PXI
Express
Serial ATA
ATI Radeon
X300
Analog
Video
GPIB
PCI
(4) USB 2.0
GBit Enet
Hard Drive
BIOS
PC2 5300
PC2 5300
DDR2
DDR2
Digital
Video
LPC
CPU Board
I/O Board
x8 PCIE
800 MHz HT