About This Manual
The NI 5102 is an analog input device available in PCI, PXI, ISA, PCMCIA, and USB form factors. This manual describes the installation and operation of these digitizers.
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About This Manual
NI 5102 |
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NI 5102 is a generic term that denotes one or more of the NI 5102 (PCI), |
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NI 5102 (PXI), NI 5102 (ISA), NI 5102 (PCMCIA), and NI 5102 (USB) |
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NI 5102 (ISA) |
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NI 5102 (PCI) |
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Refers to the NI 5102 for computers with a Type II PCMCIA slot. |
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Refers to the NI 5102 for PXI bus. |
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Refers to NI 5102 for computers that are USB compatible. |
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arbitrate and assign system resources, freeing the user from manually configuring jumpers or switches to configure settings such as the product base address and interrupt level.
Related Documentation
The NI 5102 User Manual is one piece of documentation for your measurement system. Depending on the hardware and software in your system, the following documents may also be helpful:
•Where to Start wih Your NI Digitizer
•NI-SCOPE Quick Reference Guide
•NI-SCOPE Software User Manual
•PXI Systems Alliance PXI Specification, revision 2.0
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Introduction
This chapter describes the National Instruments (NI) 5102 and lists additional equipment.
About Your NI 5102
Thank you for your purchase of an NI 5102. The NI 5102 family consists of five different devices tailored to your choice of bus: the PCI, the PXI, the ISA, the PCMCIA, and the universal serial bus (USB). Your NI 5102 has the following features:
•Two 8-bit resolution analog input channels
•Real-time sampling rate of 20 MS/s to 1 kS/s; 1 GS/s random interleaved sampling (RIS)
•15 MHz analog input bandwidth
•Analog trigger channel with software-selectable level, slope, and hysteresis
•Two digital triggers
•Software-selectable AC/DC coupling
•663,000-sample onboard memory
•Real-Time System Integration (RTSI) triggers (PCI, PXI, and ISA form factors only)
All NI 5102 devices follow industry-standard Plug and Play specifications on all platforms and offer seamless integration with compliant systems. If your application requires more than two channels for data acquisition, you can synchronize multiple devices on all platforms using RTSI bus triggers, on devices that use the RTSI bus, or the PFI digital triggers on the
I/O connector. The NI 5102 (PXI) uses the PXI trigger bus for multiboard synchronization. Unless otherwise noted, any discussion of the RTSI trigger bus is also applicable to the PXI trigger bus for the NI 5102 (PXI) in this manual.
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