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- •Contents
- •About This Manual
- •Conventions Used in This Manual
- •Related Documentation
- •About Your NI 5102
- •Acquiring Data with Your NI 5102
- •Interactively Controlling your NI 5102 with the Scope Soft Front Panel
- •NI-SCOPE Driver
- •NI Application Software
- •Using PXI with CompactPCI
- •Table 1-1. NI 5102 (PXI) J2 Pin Assignment
- •Optional Equipment
- •What You Need to Get Started
- •Unpacking
- •Installing the NI 5102
- •Table 2-1. NI 5102 (USB) LED Patterns
- •Hardware Configuration
- •Understanding Digitizers
- •Nyquist Theorem
- •Figure 3-1. Aliased Sine Wave When Waveform is Under Sampled
- •Analog Bandwidth
- •Figure 3-2. Analog Bandwidth
- •Sample Rate
- •Figure 3-3. 1 MHz Sine Wave Sample
- •Vertical Sensitivity
- •Figure 3-4. Transfer Function of a 3-Bit ADC
- •ADC Resolution
- •Record Length
- •Triggering Options
- •Making Accurate Measurements
- •Figure 3-5. Dynamic Range of an 8-Bit ADC with Three Different Gain Settings
- •Passive Probe
- •How to Compensate Your Probe
- •Figure 3-7. Connecting the Probe Compensation Cabling
- •Figure 3-8. Probe Compensation Comparison
- •Active and Current Probes
- •Figure 4-1. NI 5102 (PCI, PXI, ISA) Block Diagram
- •Figure 4-2. NI 5102 (PCMCIA, USB) Block Diagram
- •I/O Connector
- •Figure 4-3. NI 5102 (PCI, ISA) I/O Connectors
- •Figure 4-4. NI 5102 (PCMCIA) I/O Connectors
- •Figure 4-6. NI 5102 (PXI) I/O Connectors
- •Signal Connections
- •Table 4-1. I/O Connector Signal Descriptions
- •Serial Communications Port (AUX)
- •Analog Input
- •Table 4-3. AC/DC Coupling Change Settling Rates with NI Probes
- •ADC Pipeline Delay
- •Figure 4-7. Scan Clock Delay
- •Acquisition Modes
- •Posttrigger Acquisition
- •Table 4-4. Possible Number of Samples for Posttriggered Scans
- •Figure 4-8. Posttrigger Acquisition
- •Table 4-5. Posttrigger Acquisition Signals
- •Pretrigger Acquisition
- •Table 4-6. Possible Number of Samples for Pretriggered Mode
- •Figure 4-9. Pretrigger Acquisition
- •Table 4-7. Pretrigger Acquisition Signals
- •Trigger Sources
- •Figure 4-10. Scan Clock, Start Trigger, and Stop Trigger Signal Sources
- •Analog Trigger Circuit
- •Trigger Hold-off
- •Figure 4-11. Pretrigger and Posttrigger Acquisitions with Hold-off
- •Random Interleaved Sampling
- •Calibration
- •RTSI Bus Trigger and Clock Lines
- •Figure 4-12. RTSI Bus Trigger Lines
- •PFI Lines
- •PFI Lines as Inputs
- •PFI Lines as Outputs
- •Master/Slave Operation
- •Restrictions
- •Connecting Devices
- •Glossary
- •Numbers/Symbols
- •Index

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NI 5102 User Manual
High-Speed Digitizer
NI 5102 User Manual
June 2001 Edition
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