Installation guide

Setting Up ParBERT Setting Up a System with Expander Frames
42 Agilent 81250 ParBERT Installation Guide, February 2002
NI VXI-MXI-2 bus extenders As an alternative, your expander frames may also be equipped with
National Instruments VXI-MXI-2 bus extender modules. In this case:
1 Connect the master mainframe to the expander frame 1.
2 Connect expander frame 1 to expander frame 2. Plug the cable from
expander frame 2 onto the connector of expander frame 1 as
illustrated in Figure 22.
Figure 22 Connections for NI VXI-MXI-2 Bus Extenders
Please refer to the VXI-MXI-2 documentation for more details.
Cable from master
to expander 1
Cable from
expander 1 to
expander 2