Chapter 3
Hardware Overview
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PCI-4451/4452
With the PCI-4451/4452, you can use digital triggering through the
external digital 50-pin connector using any one of the eight available
programmable function input (PFI) pins. PFI0/TRIG1 (EXT_TRIG) is the
pin dedicated to external digital triggering.
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PCI-4453/4454
With the PCI-4453/4454, you can use the SMB connector for dedicated
external digital triggering.
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PCI-4451/4452/4453/4454
Using digital triggering, you can trigger the PCI-445X from any other
National Instruments device that has the RTSI-bus feature and resides on
the same PCI bus. You can connect the device through the RTSI bus cable.
An external digital trigger can also trigger multiple devices simultaneously
by distributing that trigger through the RTSI bus. You can select the polarity
of the external digital trigger.