© National Instruments Corporation 2-1 Getting Started with Your VXIpc-850
Setup
Chapter
2
This chapter contains basic instructions for setting up the VXIpc-850
and the NI-VXI software.
You can use this material as a guide to quickly configure and operate
your VXI system using the VXIpc-850. This chapter assumes that you
intend to perform a basic configuration as follows:
• You have one VXIbus chassis in which you will be using the
VXIpc-850 as the Resource Manager (logical address 0).
• You will be using the NI-VXI software for initialization,
configuration, and device interaction.
• You will use the default hardware and software settings.
Refer to Chapter 3 of this manual for a complete listing of the hardware
and software default settings. If you need more information, or if you
want to try a different configuration, please refer to the VXIpc-850
Series User Manual for information about the hardware, or to the
NI-VXI Software Manual for the VXIpc-850 Series for information
about the NI-VXI software.

Hardware Installation

To prevent electrostatic discharge, touch the antistatic plastic package
to a metal part of your VXIbus chassis before removing the VXIpc-850
from the package. Install the VXIpc-850 in the first slot of a VXI
chassis (slot 0). The VXIpc-850 default configuration automatically
detects whether it should be the VXIbus system controller. The VXI bus
system controllers operate certain VXIbus lines as required for VXI
systems. Verify that any other VXI devices with system controller
capability that are located in the same chassis are not configured as
system controller. Having more than one device configured as system
controller will damage the VXI system.