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PXI-8150 Series User Manual
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PXI-8150 Series
The terms PXI-8150 Series and PXI-8150 refer to a series of 3U PXI
controllers. Currently, this series consists of the PXI-8155 and
PXI-8156, with various processors and in different speeds.
How to Use This Documentation Set
Begin by reading Getting Started with Your PXI-8150 Series for
Windows 95/NT, a brief quick-start manual that describes how to set
up and get started with your kit using the default settings.
This manual, the PXI-8150 Series User Manual, contains more details
about changing the installation or configuration from the defaults, and
about using the hardware.
Refer to the NI-VISA User Manual to learn about VISA and how to use
it in your system. The NI-VISA online help describes the attributes,
events, and operations you can use in NI-VISA. You can find this same
information in the NI-VISA Programmer Reference Manual. These two
manuals are available in the
c:\Vxipnp\Win
XX
\NIvisa\Manuals
directory (where
Win
XX
is either
Win95
or
WinNT
) under the names
NI-VISAUsersMan.pdf
and
NI-VISAProgrammersMan.pdf
,
respectively. Use the Acrobat Reader program, Version 3 or later,
to open these files.
PXI-8156 users receive the NI-488.2M software kit, which includes
the NI-488.2M User Manual for Windows 95 and Windows NT and the
NI-488.2M Function Reference Manual for Win32.
If you ordered either LabVIEW or LabWindows™/CVI, you received
full documentation along with a configuration disk to unlock and access
these application programming environments, which are already
installed on your hard drive.