
Appendix A Specifications for
© National Instruments Corporation A-3 NI PXI-4224 User Manual
Calibration
Recommended warm-up time ................ 30 minutes
External calibration interval................... 1 year
Pre-Calibration Errors1
Pre-calibration offset error
relative to input (RTI) ............................ 865 mV max
Signal conditioning
component only............................... ±50 mV typ, ±160 mV max
at a gain of 1
Pre-calibration gain error ....................... ±18,900 ppm max
Signal conditioning
component only............................... ±600 ppm typ, ±1,000 ppm max
at a gain of 1
Memory
FIFO buffer size ..................................... 512 samples
Data transfers ......................................... DMA, interrupts,
programmed I/O
DMA modes........................................... Scatter-gather (single transfer,
demand transfer)
Configuration memory size.................... 512 words
Digital Triggers
Number of triggers ................................. 2
Purpose................................................... Start and stop trigger, gate, clock
Source..................................................... PFI 0/AI START TRIG
(front SMB connector),
PXI_TRIG<0..5> to PXI_Star
(PXI trigger bus)
Compatibility ......................................... 5 V/TTL
1 The pre-calibration errors apply only to users doing register level programming. Pre-calibration errors are not visible to
NI-DAQmx users.