National Instruments PXI-PCI 8330 Series User Manual

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Chapter 3 Hardware OverviewPXI-PCI 8330 Series User Manual 3-4 www.natinst.comStar configurations are also possible using MXI-3 interfaces in the primarysystem to fine tune performance.Figure 3-3. Additional MXI-3 ConfigurationsFunctional Unit DescriptionsNational Instruments MXI-3 ASICThe MXI-3 ASIC, which contains most of the design of the two-boardsystem, is a PCI master/slave device using the PCI-PCI bridge register set.MXI-3 uses data queues to store data for transmission, and also uses dataqueues to store received data waiting for access to the target PCI bus.MXI-3 transmits data to the parallel-to-serial converters, and receives datafrom the serial-to-parallel converters.Daisy-Chain ConfigurationStar Configuration