©NationalInstruments Corporation ix PXI-PCI8330 Series User Manual
About This Manual
This manual describes the features, functions, and operation of the
PXI-PCI 8330 Series. The four products in this series are the PCI-8330, the
PXI-8330, the PCI-8335, and the PXI-8335. The PXI-PCI 8330 Series
incorporates MXI-3 technology,which couples two physically separate
PCI,CompactPCI, or PXI buses with a data link capable of 1.5 Gbit/s serial
data rates.

Conventions

The followingconventions appear in this manual:
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoidinjury, data loss, or a system crash.
This icon denotes a warning,which advises you of precautions to take to
avoidbeing electrically shocked.
bold Bold textden otes items that you must select or click on in the software,
such asm enu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes
parameter names.
italic Italictext denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
toa key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
orvalue that you must supply.
monospace Textin this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard,sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
Thisfont is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs,subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables,filenames and extensions, and code excerpts.
monospace italic Italic textin this font den otes textthat is a placeholder f or a wordor value
thatyou must supply.
MXI-3 card MXI-3 card refers tob oth the PCI MXI-3 and PXI MXI-3 cards, unless
otherwisenoted.