About This Manual
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How to Use This Documentation Set
Begin by reading Getting Started with Your PXI-8150B Series for
Windows NT/98, 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-8150B Series User Manual, contains more details
about changing the installation or configuration from the defaults, and
about using the hardware.
PXI-8156B 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.
Acrobat (Online) Documentation
To learn more about using NI-VISA your kit includes online manuals in the
form of Adobe Acrobat version 3.0 portable document format (PDF) files.
The Acrobat manuals and their installed locations are as follows.
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The NI-VISA User Manual describes how to program using NI-VISA:
Start»Programs»VXIpnp»NI-VISA User Manual
•
The NI-VISA Programmer Reference Manual describes in detail the
attributes, events, and operations you use in NI-VISA:
Start»Programs»VXIpnp»NI-VISA Programmer
Reference Manual
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0, you can download a copy
from the Adobe Web site at
http://www.adobe.com/
.
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PICMG 2.0 R2.1 CompactPCI Specification, PCI Industrial
Computers Manufacturers Group
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IEEE Standard P1284.1-1997 (C/MM) Standard for Information
Technology for Transport Independent Printer/System Interface