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About This Manual
This manual contains detailed instructions for installing and configuring
your National Instruments PXI-8170 Series embedded computer kit.
The PXI-8170 Series includes all models of the PXI-8170 embedded PXI
computer.
How to Use This Documentation Set
Begin by reading Set Up Your PXI-8170 Series Controller, a brief
quick-start guide that describes how to install and get started with your
controller.
This manual, the
about changing the installation or configuration from the defaults, and
about using the hardware.
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:
•
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/