Express slot & FF interface

[DawnK]

Which version of NI Configurator will read the new Fieldbus DD format .ff5?

[fieldbus]

Thank you for your inquiry in NI-FBUS products.

The NI-FBUS Configurator 3.2 version supports the .ff5 format and the EDDL technology. For your information, the evaluation version could be found through the following link.
http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/websearch/F8F368E7A6563319862571E600140826?opendocument&node=132060_US

Hope it helps and please feel free to let me know if I could do more help for you!

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Josiane Zhou
National Instruments
Product Support Engineer for NI-FBUS

[FF-EUC]

Due to the fact that most new laptops now no longer come with a PCMCIA slot, does NI have any plans to produce another interface card (USB or Express).  If so when will  this be released.

Allen
FF-EUC Aus

[Ryan.S]

We have realized that many new laptops have no PCMCIA slots. Recently we are just doing the research on the new interface of FBUS, but not sure of the plan.

[FF-EUC]

Hi Ryan,
The other option is to use one of those PCMCIA to USB adapters - do you at NI have any experience with any of these as there maybe some issues here. Would be nice to know which ones work with the Series one or two cards as there are a few adapters listed & they are not cheap enough to order a bunch & try them.

Regards,
Allen
FF-EUC Australia

[Ryan.S]

We did do some tests on PCMCIA to USB adapter, but unfortunately had no success.

[Ryan.S]

As the response from the adapter provider, it's impossible to make it work with our PCMCIA card.

[FF-EUC]

Hi Ryan,
Had some questions locally on this issue - it makes sense to post this issue as a seperate thread.
At this point I am not too sure how to do it - can you transfer the maeeages across.

Regards,
Allen
FF-EUC Aus

[Ryan.S]

I don't know how to move these messages to another thread either, unless you start a new thread.

At this point, because of the design of NI PCMCIA-FBUS card, you can't use a PCMCIA-USB adapter to make it work, unless we make a new driver for this card.

[Khalid]

Hi Ryan,

Was wondering if there was any update on the use of USB-PCMCIA adapter?  Or, any other solution for that matter?

Thank you and regards,

-Khalid