PXI local bus

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Does any of the NI cards use the local bus on the PXI card cage?

[Claudia]

Currently the only boards that use the local bus are our Multifunction DAQ E Series Boards.
They only use the local bus when installed in the right most slot of a PXI Combo Chassis (PXI-1010 or PXI-1011, the chassis that come with a SCXI chassis attahced to it). They use the local bus to control the SCXI portion through the backplane.
The driver of the boards (NI-DAQ) reads the PXISYS.INI file that corresponds to the combination of chassis and controllers, and finds out if the boards can use the local bus or not.

Find out information on how to configure this systems at the following link:
KB 1NFF457T : Configuring a PXI-1010 or PXI-1011 Chassis

Find more inform
ation about PXI Initialization Files (PXISYS.INI files) at:
KB 1EGB71UI : What Are PXISYS.INI and CHASSIS.INI?
PXISYS.INI files for every combination of NI PXI chassis and controllers

Hope this helps,

Claudia Lorente
PXI/VXI Specialty Products Group
National Instruments
http://www.ni.com/ask