Will NI PXI chassis support NI PCI card?

Will NI PXI chassis support NI PCI card? If not means WHY???

National Instruments PXI chassis and cards are keyed for 5V operation, and there are not any current plans to migrate to a 3.3V setup. We currently do not have a solution for using a 3.3V-only card in one of our chassis.
Ryan Tamblin
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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  • Do NI PXI Chassis support 3.3V PXI?

    Newer DSPs, e.g. TI TMS320C6415, which have a PCI interface built in, only support 3.3V PCI levels. Therefore, the PXI chassis must operate at the 3.3V level as well. In addition, the cards, such as MXI-3 need to operate at those same levels. Will they? If not, does NI have any migration plans to 3.3V? Also, if 3.3V is not supported, then does NI have any suggestions for how to use a 3.3V only chipset in a new design which is intended to fit into a NI PXI cardcage? Thanks.

    National Instruments PXI chassis and cards are keyed for 5V operation, and there are not any current plans to migrate to a 3.3V setup. We currently do not have a solution for using a 3.3V-only card in one of our chassis.
    Ryan Tamblin
    Applications Engineer
    National Instruments

  • HELP! I need to be able to remove power from a PXI chassis and replace a card without rebooting the whole system

    I do not have particulars on the controller, but I am sure it's an NI chassis
    and NI regular controller that has a serial cable leading back to the PC.
    I am making this PXI rack into a debug rack for instrument cards,
    so I need to be able to remove power from just the PXI chassis
    and then replace the card with another one
    or the same one and then turn the power back on and restart a
    diagnostic test on the card WITHOUT
    having to reboot the PC.
    Is there a PCIe bridge setup that would allow me to do this?
    Is there software that I need that can accomplish this?

    Yes
    The Chassi is a NI PXI 1045
    and the controller is a NI-PXI-8331
    Let me re-enumerate my requirements:
    Background:
    I have a number of NI cards as well as other manufactured cards in the system.
    One of these cards in the NI system is considered to be a UUT.
    That is, I am using the NI card cage system and other cards in the system to test a CARD
    during a manufacturing test of said UUT CARD.
    The UUT uses a PLX 9030 for it's PCI interfacing.
    This UUT is not designed for hot swap, and I do not bieleve it is plug and play.
    Requirement:
    1. I need to be able to shut off the chassis and remove the UUT when the test finishes, replace the tested UUT
    with a unknown UUT, re-apply power and then test the new UUT WITHOUT having to reboot the PC.
    I have tried several things, such as disabling the PCIe busses in the windows control panel, and then removing power
    replacing the UUT with the next one, re-applying chassis power and then re-enabling the bus and SOMETIMES it works.
    I need a very robust way to do this.
    I also bought a CHROMA PXI-52906-E extender card with bus switches on it, so that I can remove power to the UUT
    without shutting off the chassis. The card is supposedley designed so that when power is re-applied to the UUT, the necessary
    signals to boot the PXI PCI interface is conducted, but I think something else has to be written to the card's PCI registers.
    I am by no means an expert in PCI/PXI, 
    but I seem to have exhausted all of my reserach online in how to meet my requirements.
    Perhaps there is a way for the NI8331 controller to capture PCI configuration data to the card's on system boot,
    and then "replay it" to my UUT after I re-apply power to the UUT?
    Or perhaps PLX makes such a tool?
    Any ideas?

  • Best supported Wireless PCI card?

    I am most likely buying myself a new Wireless G card (I only have a B now) and router. I was wondering what is the best supported Wireless card in Linux. The one I have now gives me massive headaches, and only works under certain conditions.

    Might as well consider buying N 802.11N hardware, and may be easier to get feedback from some users about that. There are so many 802.11G cards and routers that it is difficult to say it will work.
    What works great for some people doesn't work so well for others. My guess is that most cards work well, search the forums for people with problems with wireless and stay away from those cards, the others ... it's a leap of faith. Besides I guess you can return it if it doesn't work as expected.

  • Will my mac pro support this graphics card?

    Hi
    I have a 2007 3.0GHZ Mac pro, the current graphics card in it -  ATI X1900 XT is giving me a lot of problems for a while now. I have taken it out cleaned it and put if back in but they are still happening. Then I found this artical about it -
    http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/27/apple-finally-acknowledges-and-addresses-ati -x1900-xt-issue/
    Looks like there was a problem with it and apple were replacing all the cards within 3 years of purchase which I have missed. So I want to buy a new one, but I want to make sure my mac will support it. The problem is I do video work so I want a decent one and it needs to have 2 DVI ports. Would my mac support this card
    http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-5000/hd-5870/Pages /ati-radeon-hd-5870-overview.aspx#4
    Is there somewhere I can get a list of supported cards for a specific mac pro model?
    Thanks!

    Is there somewhere I can get a list of supported cards for a specific mac pro model?
    Video Card Upgrades for Mac Pro - Mac Guides
    Would my mac support this card
    Not as is, but will this one:
    ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro - Apple Store
    Many opt for this:
    ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro - Apple Store
    Note that OS version is of issue. You don't list yours, but update or upgrade may be necessary.
    If you are up to it make your own radeon  HD 5770/5870/6870/6850 Mac ROM! and flash a Windows compatible (like you linked).

  • E250, will the PCI66 slot support a PCI33 card?

    I've put a QFE0 card in the PCI 66 slot, but the OS can't find the interfaces. I get the following:
    # ifconfig qfe0 plumb
    ifconfig: SIOCSLIFNAME for ip: qfe0: no such interface
    Mar 13 14:57:47 cse1 ip: ip_rput_dlpi(qfe0): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_ATTACH_REQ(11), errno 8, unix 0
    # Mar 13 14:57:47 cse1 ip: ip_rput_dlpi(qfe0): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_BIND_REQ(1), errno 3, unix 0
    Mar 13 14:57:47 cse1 ip: ip_rput_dlpi(qfe0): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_PHYS_ADDR_REQ(49), errno 3, unix 0
    Mar 13 14:57:47 cse1 ip: ip_rput_dlpi(qfe0): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_UNBIND_REQ(2), errno 3, unix 0
    Mar 13 14:57:47 cse1 ip: ip_rput_dlpi(qfe0): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_DETACH_REQ(12), errno 3, unix 0
    I did do a boot -r and that didn't help.

    See if the system has recognised the card. Normally a prtdiag -v shows you if it is known. There is a good chance the card is not 0. It might be something else like 1 or 2, etc.
    You could try plumbing up qfe1, etc..
    Stephen

  • Will a 2006 Mac Pro (running Lion) accept a usb3 pcie card?

    I have a Mac Pro (2006-running Lion 10.7.5, Build 11G63). Is there any way that it will recognize and accept a USB PCIe Card?

    I think you would do find to narrow it down from generic - and yes of course you can, I do on mine and am using Allegro USB3 2-port from Sonnettech.com
    Chips change and some people have trouble or it works but not the way that they want or expected.
    Check out OWC www.macsales.com and then check for specific cards.

  • Calibratin​g PCI cards using Calibratio​n Executive?

    I am currently calibrating PXI cards using Calibration Executive (3.2.2) and a PXI-1050 Chassis, my company is getting ready to start buying PCI cards, specifically PCI-6542 and PCI-6713. What additional equipment will I need to purchase so that I will be able to calibrate the PCI cards? If the PC I am currently using does not have enough slots to accomodate additional cards is it necessary to buy another PC or is there a chassis that will let me calibrate the PCI cards outside of a PC?

    Hi Rick,
    I went ahead and answered your other thread here.  We like to keep the questions on our forum to one thread to make it easier for future customers to search.
    Regards,
    Paul C.

  • Wireless G PCI Cards for Quicksilver

    I'm looking to get my dad a wireless G PCI network card for his Quicksilver G4. On the list are the Sonnet Aria, MacWireless 11g, and the Belkin Wireless G. Anyone have any experience with any of these cards? Do I have any other good options that I'm overlooking?
    I'm also curious about the range we can expect to get from this card. Reason being is my brother lives one house down & across the street (about 100 yards.) Could my dad's G4 with one of these cards pick up the signal from my brother's Linksys wireless router? This is basically the whole point of getting one of these cards, so if there's no way to pick up the signal then it's all a wash...

    Quoted: So is that saying typically I could expect to get 18 Mbps with this card 75 meters away from the airport basestation (or other wireless G router)?
    Theoretically yes. Only this has been measured without any wall's or anything like that, just in open space. Also the wireless accespoint has to be able to send this distance.
    The USB stick i mentioned above does perform here better than the original Airport Card in my iBook. But ik don't know if it will perform better than the Sonnet PCI card. Because the Sonnet card has a much bigger antenna, so it seems logic to me it has a stronger signal.
    The speed should be exact the same. Both adaptor's are 54 Mbps, so should also be able to run at 54 Mbps. Ofcours you should not be to far away from the accespoint.
    Here i have a Linksys WAP54G accespoint and my iBook with the Asus adaptor. At this moment i have a 54 Mbps connecton. There is about 15 meter between the accespoint and the iBook and two brick wall's.
    Hopefully this is helpfull or solved your problem. (see button's above this message)

  • Will OSX support Adaptec PCI Express scsi cards in an early 2008 Mac Pro?

    I need to move my scsi interface scanner from a G4 machine and the old PCI Adaptec AHA 2930 CU card won't fit.  I was using Snow Leopard on the G4 unit - it still supported the Adaptec card and all was good.  My 23" Cinema display then bit the dust and I replaced it with with a 24" Cinema display with the mini display port connector.  I purchased an adapter from Kanex to make it compatible, but the adapter was defective - so I returned it.  Their reviews aren't very good - seem to have a lot of D.O.A. adapters - not sure I want to deal with the frustration, but it would be the least expensive option.
    I do have, however, an early 2008 Mac Pro that I can use, provided that it supports the newer PCI Express scsi cards that Adaptec makes.  I'm not sure which one to get yet, either.  I'd rather not buy one and find out it won't work.  I can make a partition on the boot drive for Snow Leopard in case scsi isn't supported in later versions of OSX.  In case you're wondering, I did use a scsi to firewire adapter to run the scanner on my laptop for a while - but it stopped working and I can't locate any replacements (or the company - 2nd Wave Technologies - for that matter).  I haven't tried locating a scsi to usb adapter, but from what I can see, they are getting pretty scarce.  I'd replace the scanner, but it is fairly pricey and the newest model retails at the price of a small car - so that really isn't an option at this point.
    Thanks in advance for any info.
    Message was edited by: Jakob Richardt
    Changed name of display adapter manufacturer.

    Thanks for the response - I guess the question I should have asked is "Will OSX support scsi cards in an early 2008 Mac Pro and if so, which ones?"  I didn't realize Apple and Adaptec weren't working together - my G4 tower arrived with an Adaptec card in it when I bought it in 2000 (from a third party vendor, not directly from Apple).  It came with either OS 8.* or OS 9.  When I updated to OSX, everything continued working, so I didn't think much about it until I pondered using the Mac Pro for the scanner - at some point the G4 is going to stop working - need to have a solution before that happens.  The manuals I've been reading refer to the slots in the G4 machines as PCI.  The manual for the Mac Pro refers to the slots as PCI e.  These slots have fewer connectors, so I thought that the "Express" part of the name referred to this particular card configuration when compared to the longer card connectors in the G4 type of machines.
    Can you tell me what scsi card brands will work in the Mac Pro?  I'd still like to pursue this option.  As I mentioned in my original post, buying a new scanner isn't in the cards right now - it costs more than the computer, so, although pricey, the card option is still less expensive.
    Thanks!

  • Detect and employ PCI or PXI chassis

    I'm currently on a project which has historically bee based around a PCI backplane (in a desktop PC) containing a couple of PCI-6229 cards and a PCI-7833R. This forms the core of a testrig of which there are about 25 instances worldwide. In addition, we also support many rigs which are cored around a NI PXI chassis.
    There is a drive to replace the PCs and we have opted for a for smaller footprint unit having fewer PCI slots. These are being equipped with an MXI extender card to a PXI backplane. This means in future, we need only keeps spares in the PXI format. Supporting two sets of backplanes containing near-identical hardware without implementing two near-identical pieces of software does present its problems: The FPGA bitmap build for the PCI version of the card will not open through the reference type for the PXI version of the card. We need to have a PCI and a PXI version of the bitmap. Irritatingly, the source code for these two is identical.
    The first part of the solution is to establish which backplane we're using. This is straightforward. Supplying the VISA Find Resource function with the appropriate search string will identify if any PXI backplanes are connected. (Figure 1.)
    Next, we need to maintain references to both FPGA VIs. Figure 2 illustrates how the FPGA to be used can be opened and proposes a structure in which the references to all available FPGA types (this example actually has four FPGA bitmaps which might be selected). In each of the other cases, the appropriate bitmap is selected in the Open FPGA Reference VI. Further, in each case, the reference is wired to the appropriate component from the cluster. (For calibration records, we also find it necessary to return the serial number of the card, but that portion of this code can be ignored.) Notice that the FPGA_Type component of the cluster is used to control which bitmap loads and which Ref component is used to store its Reference. This is necessary because the reference types are different for each bitmap.
    Having set FPGA_Type, Figure 3 shows how to employ the selected resource. A separate Read/Write Control must be coded for each FPGA type.
    Closing the resource also requires a case for each FPGA type.
    I hope anyone else planning a stepped migration between backplanes can make use of this.

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  • Gigabit ehternet card in real time PXI chassis

    I was reading document # DZ52103_US about general real-time
    information. This document states that plug in ethernet, serial, and
    GPIB cards are not supported for real-time I/O operations. I want to
    use a plug in PXI gigabit ethernet card to transfer data from my real
    time PXI chassis to a host laptop computer. Can this be done?

    Currently, the only PXI ethernet controllers supported in LabVIEW Real-Time are the PXI-8211 and the PXI-8212. These are not Gigabit cards. This information is documented in the following link and will be updated as ethernet device support in LabVIEW Real-Time changes.
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    Applications Engineer
    National Instruments

  • USB 2.0 on PCI card no longer supported?

    Curious as to whether anyone else has experienced the same problem I had trying to update via a USB 2.0 port on a PCI card. I just updated to 1.1.1 yesterday, and while connected to a USB 2.0 port on my PCI card (my old Mac never had built-in 2.0 ports), all **** broke loose after the download was complete and ready to be installed. I've never had problems syncing via the PCI card's USB 2.0 port up to now, but during the "preparing iPhone for . . ." process, my iPhone would not respond to the installer, resulting in an error message. After repeated attempts, I switched over to a built-in USB 1.1 port and then had to do a complete restore (which took several hours), but was successful. Oddly though, after the restore, if I try to use the USB 2.0 port on the PCI card again to sync, I get an error message saying that the contents of the iPhone cannot be read, and that I'll have to restore again (even though the phone is fully functional). If I switch back to the built-in USB 1.1 port, everything is fine and I'm not asked to restore the phone. Looks like I can no longer use my USB 2.0 ports (on the PCI card), which worked fine prior to 1.1.1. I know that my weeks/months are numbered with this older Mac (doesn't appear that Leopard will be supported on this Mac), but I just wasn't planning to purchase a new Mac just yet. Perhaps Apple is now checking for "built-in" USB 2.0 during these updates and not supporting USB 2.0 via a PCI card? Would sort of make sense, given the number of users who continue to have problems just trying to get iTunes to recognize their phone (i.e., eliminate the 3rd-party PCI cards). I doubt I'll attempt another update to my iPhone with this Mac. Let me know if you've had a similar experience using a PCI card rather than "built-in" USB ports. Thanks.

    Thanks everyone for the great info!
    I had an issue with my wife's Powermac G4 Sawtooth and went out and got a Belkin USB 2.0 PCI card to replace the less compatible usb 2.0 pci card. It looks a card with the NEC chipset definitely does the trick.
    Her iPhone now syncs pretty much perfectly on the Belkin card. Yaaay!
    Of course, it doesn't help that there is another syncing issue going on right now, which kind of threw me:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1311405&tstart=0
    But that's temporary. Thanks again!
    Message was edited by: John Chu

  • Help please ; which G-based PCI card will work on MDD?

    Hi there,
    Based on what I've learned from this forum, the BroadComm chipset is needed in wireless PCI cards if these are to work on our Macs (MDDs). However, finding if this chipset is the one has proven to be at best, an exercise in futility.
    NewEgg has the following card on sale (Rosewill 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Card, model no. RNX-G300LX, for $13.99. Coupon code "EMCBBBJCC" chops it to $8.99. With free shipping!). The technical specs claim that the card works under OS 10.3,10.4,10.5.
    Has anyone had positive experiences with this brand (or any other for that matter)? I do want to add a G-type PCI card but can't figure out which one will work.
    Any help will be greatly appreciated!
    Regards,
    Jacobo

    From the product photos on Rosewill's site it looks like that card uses an RALink chipset (the RA 2651T, I think). RALink has Mac drivers for its wireless chipsets from 10.3-10.4 on its website here:
    http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Macintosh.html
    Those drivers should allow you to use that card on your Mac in OS X - since it doesn't use a Broadcom chipset, it wouldn't work in OS 9. I don't know how well they work (the card I'm using in my Sawtooth now is a RT-Link card) but I know Linksys currently uses RALink chipsets in their 802.11b/g PCI cards (WMP54G v4.1) and people have used RALink's posted drivers to use those cards in their Macs.
    AFAIK, no currently shipping wireless PCI cards use Broadcom chipsets.

  • ATA PCI card with 48 bit BIOS support?

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