User manual

VXI-MXI-2/B

Configuration

and Installation

Chapter

This chapter contains the instructions to configure and install the

VXI-MXI-2/B module. If you have a C-size VXI-MXI-2, see

Chapter 3, VXI-MXI-2 Configuration and Installation.

Some features of the VXI-MXI-2/B 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/B 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/B from the package.

Configure the VXI-MXI-2/B

This section describes how to configure the following options on the

VXI-MXI-2/B.

• 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 4-1 shows the location and factory-default settings of most of

the configuration switches and jumpers on the VXI-MXI-2/B.