National Instruments PXIe-8840 Quad-Core User Manual

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counter/timer operations, SCXI signal conditioning, RTSI or PXI synchronization, self-calibration, messaging, and acquiring data to extended memory. For more information, visitni.com/daq.National Instruments modular instruments use specialized drivers suited to each product’sspecialization. Express VIs provide customized, interactive programming of instruments in asingle interface, and soft front panels provide an interface for testing the functionality of eachinstrument with no programming required. NI Switches, DMMs, High-Speed DIO, High-Speed Digitizers, and Sources each have customized drivers for high-end modularinstrumentation systems. RF applications leverage two drivers, NI-RFSG and NI-RFSA, andDynamic Signal Acquisition is available through NI-DAQmx. For more information, visitni.com/modularinstruments.You can expand the timing and triggering functionality of your PXI system with PXI Timingand Synchronization products. These products provide precision clock sources, custom routingof triggers for multi-chassis synchronization, clock sharing, and more and are programmedwith NI-Sync. For more information, visit ni.com/pxi.NI-VISA is the National Instruments implementation of the VISA specification. VISA is auniform API for communicating and controlling USB, Serial, GPIB, PXI, VXI, and variousother types of instruments. This API aids in the creation of portable applications andinstrument drivers. For information about writing your own PXI instrument driver with NI-VISA, refer to the NI-VISA Getting Started Manual and the readme.txt file in the NI-VISAdirectory. For more information, visit ni.com/visa.With LabVIEW for Linux and support for more than two hundred devices on Linux with theNI-DAQmx driver, you can now create virtual instruments based on the Linux OS. Instrumentcontrol in Linux has been improved by the NI-VISA driver for Linux, and NI modularinstruments are partially supported. For more information, visit ni.com/linux.ConfigurationBIOS Setup UtilityYou can change the NI PXIe-8840 Quad-Core configuration settings in the BIOS setupprogram. The BIOS is the low-level interface between the hardware and operating systemsoftware that configures and tests your hardware when you boot the system. The BIOS setupprogram includes menus for configuring settings and enabling NI PXIe-8840 Quad-Corecontroller features.Most users do not need to use the BIOS setup program, as the NI PXIe-8840 Quad-Corecontroller ships with default settings that work well for most configurations.Caution Changing BIOS settings may lead to incorrect controller behavior andpossibly an unbootable controller. If this happens, follow the instructions for6 | ni.com | NI PXIe-8840 Quad-Core User Manual