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Chapter 1
Introduction
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The
Intel C610 Series
chipset connects to the SPI, USB, Serial ATA, PCI Express, and LPC
buses.
•
The
USB Connectors
connect the Intel C610 Series chipset to the Hi-Speed USB 2.0
interface and USB 3.0 interfaces.
•
The
Serial ATA Solid-State Drive
is a 240 GB or larger notebook solid-state drive. The
Serial ATA interface enables transfer rates up to 600 MB/s. The solid-state drive also
supports Native Command Queuing.
•
The
PXI Express Connector
connects the NI PXIe-8880 to the PXI Express/
CompactPCI Express backplane.
•
Both the
I210
and
I217 Gigabit Enet ports
connect to either 10 Mbit, 100 Mbit, or
1,000 Mbit Ethernet interfaces.
•
The
GPIB
block contains the GPIB interface.
National Instruments Software
National Instruments has developed several software tools you can use with the NI PXIe-8880.
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 buses.
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 specialized functionality.
For more information visit
ni.com/labview
and
ni.com/toolkits
.
If you prefer to use Microsoft’s Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual Studio .NET for the core
of your application, Measurement Studio adds tools for Measurement and Automation to each
language. For more information visit
ni.com/mstudio
.
LabWindows/CVI is an interactive ANSI C programming environment designed for building
virtual instrument applications. LabWindows/CVI delivers a drag-and-drop editor for building
user interfaces, a complete ANSI C environment for building your test program logic, and a
collection of automated code generation tools, as well as utilities for building automated test
systems, monitoring applications, or laboratory experiments. For more information visit
ni.com/lwcvi
.
NI-DAQmx provides an extensive library of functions that you can call from your application
development environment or interactive environment such as NI Signal Express. These
functions provide an intuitive API for National Instruments’ multifunction DAQ products.
Features available include analog input (A/D conversion), buffered data acquisition (high-speed
A/D conversion), analog output (D/A conversion), waveform generation, digital I/O,
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