Appendix A

Specifications

The following specifications define the operating and performance characteristics of the HP E8491A.

Interface Characteristics

VXI Characteristics

General

 

 

 

 

 

Operating System

Windows 95

 

 

 

Windows NT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controllers

PC based

 

 

 

 

 

 

I/O Library

SICL / VISA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backplane

PCI

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface

IEEE 1394

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum I/O Speed*

16-bit: 1.76 MBytes/s to PC

 

 

 

2.50 MBytes/s to HP E8491A

 

 

* 200 MHz Pentium PC

32 bit: 1.0 MByte/s to PC

 

 

/

1.0 MByte/s to HP E8491A

 

 

400 MHz Adaptec Host

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Languages

C/C++, Visual Basic, HP VEE, LabView

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VXI Device Type

Message-based commander

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data transfer bus

n/a

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slot 0 functionality

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resource Manager Functionality

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

MXIbus Resource Manager

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Size

C

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slots

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connectors

P1 / P2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shared Memory

128 kBytes

 

 

 

 

 

 

VXI busses

TTL trigger bus, ECL trigger bus

 

 

 

 

 

 

C-size compatibility

n/a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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