Integration and System Considerations
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Integration and System Considerations
This section contains information about integrating NI signal generators into a PXI-based or a PCI-based measurement system.
The PXI architecture has built-in timing and triggering features that can synchronize multiple devices over a backplane timing bus. Multiple devices in a modular instrumentation system can share a common Reference clock and synchronize to triggers that are distributed over controlled signal paths that ensure matched propagation. PC plug-ins with RTSI also provide an internal bus that can be accessed by multiple devices. Internal routing of these timing signals in PXI and PC plug-ins with RTSI eliminate complicated external wiring. Standardized timing protocols eliminate incompatibilities, giving you the best performance when synchronizing any kind of analog, digital, or timing measurements.
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a high-performance expansion bus architecture originally developed by Intel to replace ISA and EISA. It has achieved widespread acceptance as a standard for PCs and workstations, and offers a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 132 Mbytes/s.