09-04-2008 05:23 PM
I found that it is very convinient to use two monitor for one PC. Unfortunatelly PXI-8106 processor
could be connected to two monitor (if you connected to two monitors in both willbe the same picture).
Could someone direct me to third party vendor who is making PXI visual card to extend PXI-8106
into two monitors.
09-04-2008 05:53 PM
There is information in this thread about some of the research other people have done on this subject:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=270&message.id=1603
Most of this focuses on various forms of cPCI (compact PCI which is compatible with the PXI form factor) or PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) with an cPCI adapter. If you are looking for something lower cost you may also want to consider a product such as Maxivista http://www.maxivista.com/
This is a software solution that emulates a dual monitor using another computer and an Ethernet connection. I have used this program and had very good luck with it but it is obviously not quite as clean as having a second video card. If you are planning on running software that makes frequent screen updates to the secondary display (such as playing video) you probably wouldn't be able to use Maxivista.
Hope this helps
-Matt