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© National Instruments Corporation ix Getting Started with Your VXIpc-850
The NI-VXI Software Manual for the VXIpc-850 Series contains
more details about changing the NI-VXI software installation or
configuration from the defaults, and using the NI-VXI software on
the VXIpc-850.
When you are familiar with the material in this getting started manual,
you can begin to use the NI-VXI Software Reference Manual for C.
Chapter 1, Introduction to VXI, and Chapter 2, Introduction to the
NI-VXI Functions, present the concepts of VXI and prepare you for
detailed explanations of the NI-VXI functions. Study the descriptions
of each function given in Chapters 3 through 13 to fully understand the
purpose and syntax of each function.
Refer to the NI-VXI Graphical Utilities Reference Manual and the
NI-VXI Text Utilities Reference Manual to learn more about the
NI-VXI utilities.
Related Documentation
The following documents contain information that you may find
helpful as you read this manual:
• ANSI/IEEE Standard 1014-1987, IEEE Standard for a Versatile
Backplane Bus: VMEbus
• ANSI/IEEE Standard 1155-1993, IEEE VMEbus Extensions for
Instrumentation: VXIbus
• ANSI/VITA 1-1994, VME64
• VXI-6, VXIbus Mainframe Extender Specification, Rev. 1.0,
VXIbus Consortium
Customer Communication
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our products, and we want to help if you have problems with them.
To make it easy for you to contact us, this manual contains comment
and configuration forms for you to complete. These forms are in
Appendix B, Customer Communication, at the end of this manual.