Appendix B Common Questions
© National Instruments Corporation B-5 PCI-Based MXI-2 Interface for Windows
Which NI-VXI utility program must I use to initialize the PCI-MXI-2,
PCI-MXI-2 Universal, or PXI-8320?
Windows automatically initializes the board at system startup.
Which NI-VXI utility programmust I use to perform startupResource
Manager operations?
Use the Resman program to perform startup Resource Manager operations.
YoucanrunResmanbyclickingtheRun VXI Resource Manager button
in the MAX toolbar. Resman uses the settings configured in MAX.
It initializes the VXI/VMEbus system and stores the information that it
collects in the
RESMAN.TBL
file in the
TBL
subdirectory of the
NIVXI
directory.
Through MAX, you also can configure Resman to run automatically at
computer startup.
What can I do to make sure my system is up and running?
The fastest method for testing the system is to run Resman. This program
attempts to access memory in the upper A16 address space of each device
in the system. If Resman does not report any problems, the VXI/MXI
communication system is operational.
To testindividual devices, you canuse the VISAIC programto interactively
issue NI-VISA operations. You can use the
ViIn
and
ViOut
functions to
test register-based devices by programming their registers. If you have any
message-based devices, you can send and receive messages with the
viRead
and
viWrite
functions.
Finally, if you are using LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, or Measurement
Studio and you have instrument drivers for the devices in your chassis,
you can use the interactive features of these programs to quickly test the
functionality of the devices.
