Chapter 2
Installation and Configuration
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National Instruments
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In the
images
directory, you will find a
manuals
directory, an
os
directory, and a
drivers
directory.
The
manuals
directory contains quick reference guides, technical
reference manuals, and National Instruments software manuals, all in
Adobe Acrobat format. To access any manual, change your directory
to
c:\images\manuals
and list the contents of that directory.
The
os
directory contains a subdirectory corresponding to the operating
system installed on your computer.
The
drivers
directory contains driver installers for the system
peripherals. These files and directories are copied exactly from the
manufacturer distribution disks, so the naming conventions vary from
peripheral to peripheral.
PXI Features
PXI Trigger Connectivity
The SMB connector on the NI PXI-8109 front panel can connect to or from
any PXI backplane trigger line. A trigger allocation process is needed to
prevent two resources from connecting to the same trigger line, resulting in
the trigger being double-driven and possibly damaging the hardware. At
the time of this manual’s publication, this software is not yet available for
Windows. Contact National Instruments for more information.
PXI Chassis Configuration
The PXI Platform Services software installed on your controller and
available on the
National Instruments Driver DVD
or
PXI Platform
Services CD
included with your kit automatically identifies your PXI
system components to generate a
pxisys.ini
file. You can configure
your entire PXI system and identify PXI-1 chassis through Measurement &
Automation Explorer (MAX), included with your controller. MAX creates
the
pxisys.ini
file, which defines your PXI system parameters. MAX
also provides an interface to route and reserve triggers so dynamic routing,
through drivers such as DAQmx, avoids double-driving and potentially
damaging trigger lines. For more information about routing and reserving
PXI triggers, refer to KnowledgeBase
3TJDOND8
,
Using PXI Timing and
Triggering Functionality
, at
ni.com/support
.
