User manual

VXI

plug&play

for the

VXI-MXI-2

Chapter

This chapter describes the contents of the VXIplug&play disk that

came with your VXI-MXI-2 kit. The disk contains a VXIplug&play

soft front panel and a VXIplug&play knowledge base file.

VXI-MXI-2 VXI

plug&play

Soft Front Panel

The VXIplug&play soft front panel that comes with your VXI-MXI-2

kit complies with VXIplug&play document VPP-7, Soft Front Panel

Specification. This section describes the options you can configure

using the soft front panel.

Use the soft front panel to configure programmable features on the

VXI-MXI-2. Because this same soft front panel also works with the

VME-MXI-2, you can easily configure a hybrid VXI/VME system. The

settings that you change using the soft front panel are stored in the

user-configurable half of the EEPROM on the VXI-MXI-2. As a result,

the changes remain intact through power cycles.

Installing the Soft Front Panel

To run the soft front panel, the host computer must be running the

Windows operating system and have the VTL/VISA I/O driver

language installed. If you are not using Windows and VTL/VISA,

you must follow the instructions in Appendix B, Programmable

Configurations, to access and modify the programmable features

because you will not be able to use the soft front panel.

To install the soft front panel on your system, go to the Windows

Program Manager’s File menu and click on the Run option. Type the

following command at the prompt

: setup