©NationalInstruments Corporation 1-1 NI5102 User Manual
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Introduction
This chapter describesthe National Instruments (N I) 5102 and lists
additional equipment.

About Your NI 5102

Thank you for your purchase of an NI 5102. The NI 5102 family consists
offive different devices tailored to your choice of bus: the PCI, the PXI,
the ISA, the PCMCIA, and the universal serial bus (USB). Your NI 5102
has the following features:
Two8-bit resolution analog input channels
Real-timesamplingrateof20MS/sto1kS/s;1GS/srandom
interleavedsamplin g (RIS)
15 MHz analog input bandwidth
Analog trigger channel with software-selectable level, slope,
andhysteresis
Twodigital triggers
Software-selectable AC/DCcoupling
663,000-sample onboard memory
Real-TimeSystem Integration (RTSI) triggers (PCI, PXI, and ISA
form factors only)
AllNI 5102 devices follow industry-standard Plug and Playspecifications
on all platforms and offerseamless integration with comp liant systems. If
yourapplication requires more than two channels for data acquisition, you
cansynchronize multiple devices on all platforms using RTSI bus triggers,
on devicesthat use the RTSI bus, or the PFI digital triggers on the
I/O connector.The NI 5102 (PXI) uses the PXI triggerbus for multiboard
synchronization. Unless otherwise noted, any discussion of the RTSI
trigger busis also applicable tot he PXI trigger bus for the NI 5102 (PXI)
in this manual.