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© National Instruments Corporation 13 NI PXI/PCI-5114 Specifications
Waveform Specifications
Specification Value Comments
Onboard Memory
Size
8 MB per Channel
Standard
8 megasamples
per channel
—
64 MB per Channel
Option
64 megasamples
per channel
256 MB per Channel
Option
256 megasamples
per channel
Minimum Record
Length
1 Sample —
Number of
Pretrigger Samples
Zero up to full Record Length Single-record
mode and
multiple-record
mode
Number of
Posttrigger Samples
Zero up to full Record Length Single-record
mode and
multiple-record
mode
Maximum Number
of Records in
Onboard Memory
8 MB/channel 32,768 * It is possible
to exceed these
numbers if you
fetch records while
acquiring data. For
more information,
refer to the
NI High-Speed
Digitizers Help.
64 MB/channel 100,000*
256 MB/channel 100,000*
Allocated Onboard
Memory per Record
(Record Length × 1 byte/S) + 240 bytes,
rounded up to next multiple of 128 bytes
or
256 bytes, whichever is greater
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