User manual

VXI-MXI-2 Configuration

and Installation

Chapter

This chapter contains the instructions to configure and install the C-size

VXI-MXI-2 module. If you have a VXI-MXI-2/B, see Chapter 4,

VXI-MXI-2/B Configuration and Installation.

Some features of the VXI-MXI-2 are not configurable with onboard

switches or jumpers but are instead programmable. Refer to Chapter 7,

VXIplug&play for the VXI-MXI-2, or Appendix B, Programmable

Configurations, for a description of the programmable features.

Warning: Electrostatic discharge can damage several components on your

VXI-MXI-2 module. To avoid such damage in handling the module,

touch the antistatic plastic package to a metal part of your VXI chassis

before removing the VXI-MXI-2 from the package.

Configure the VXI-MXI-2

This section describes how to configure the following options on the

VXI-MXI-2.

• VXIbus logical address

• VXIbus Slot 0/Non-Slot 0

• VXIbus local bus

• VXIbus CLK10 routing

• Trigger input termination

• MXIbus termination

• Configuration EEPROM

• Onboard DRAM

Figure 3-1 shows the VXI-MXI-2 as it would appear when facing the

right side cover. The drawing shows the location and factory-default

settings of most of the configuration switches and jumpers.