National Instruments PXI Express Series User Manual

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Chapter 2 Installation and ConfigurationNI PXIe-1062Q User Manual 2-16 ni.comUsing System Configuration and Initialization FilesThe PXI Express specification allows many combinations of PXI Expresschassis and system modules. To assist system integrators, themanufacturers of PXI Express chassis and system modules must documentthe capabilities of their products. The minimum documentationrequirements are contained in .ini files, which consist of ASCII text.System integrators, configuration utilities, and device drivers can use these.ini files.The capability documentation for the NI PXIe-1062Q chassis is containedin the chassis.ini file on the software media that comes with thechassis. The information in this file is combined with information aboutthe system controller to create a single system initialization file calledpxisys.ini (PXI System Initialization). The system controllermanufacturer either provides a pxisys.ini file for the particular chassismodel that contains the system controller or provides a utility that canread an arbitrary chassis.ini file and generate the correspondingpxisys.ini file. System controllers from NI provide the pxisys.inifile for the NI PXIe-1062Q chassis, so you should not need to use thechassis.ini file. Refer to the documentation provided with the systemcontroller or to ni.com/support for more information on pxisys.iniand chassis.ini files.Device drivers and other utility software read the pxisys.ini file toobtain system information. The device drivers should have no need todirectly read the chassis.ini file. For detailed information regardinginitialization files, refer to the PXI Express specification atwww.pxisa.org.Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com