Chapter3 HardwareOverview
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Starconfigurations are also possible using MXI-3 interfaces in the primary
system to finetune performance.
Figure3-3. AdditionalMXI-3 Configurations
Functional Unit DescriptionsNational Instruments MXI-3 ASICThe MXI-3 ASIC, which contains most of the logic in the two-board
system,is a PCI master/slave device using the PCI-PCI bridge register set.
MXI-3 uses data queues to store data for transmission, and also uses data
queuesto store received data waiting for access to the target PCI bus.
MXI-3 ASIC transmits data to the parallel-to-serial converters, and
receivesd atafrom the serial-to-parallel converters.
Daisy-ChainConfiguration
StarConfiguration