Chapter 1
Introduction
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PCI-DIO-96/PXI-6508/PCI-6503 User Manual
Optional Equipment
National Instruments offers a variety of products to use with your DIO
board, including cables, connector blocks, and other accessories,
as follows:
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Cables and cable assemblies
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Connector blocks, 50-pin screw terminals
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SCXI modules and accessories for isolating, amplifying, exciting, and
multiplexing signals for relays and analog output. With SCXI you can
condition and acquire up to 3,072 channels.
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Low channel count signal conditioning modules, boards, and
accessories, including conditioning for strain gauges and RTDs,
simultaneous sample and hold, and relays
For more information about optional equipment available from National
Instruments, visit
ni.com
.
Custom Cabling
Caution
For compliance with Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) requirements, this
product must be operated with shielded cables and accessories. If unshielded cables or
accessories are used, the EMC specifications are no longer guaranteed unless all
unshielded cables and/or accessories are installed in a shielded enclosure with properly
designed and shielded input/output ports.
National Instruments offers cables and accessories for you to prototype
your application or to use if you frequently change board interconnections.
If you want to develop your own cable, the mating connector for the
PCI-DIO-96 and PXI-6508 is a 100-position, right-angle receptacle
without board locks. Recommended manufacturer part numbers for this
mating connector are as follows:
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AMP Corporation (part number 749879-9)
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Honda Corporation (part number PCS-XE100LFD-HS)