Additional Programs And Files - National Instruments VME-SB2020 Getting Started

NI-VXI Software Installation and Configuration
• is the National Instruments multiframe Resource Manager program that
resman
automatically configures the VME-MXI interfaces installed in your VME chassis. Run
this program after
• is the text-based interactive control program that executes functions you enter from
victext
the keyboard. It helps you learn the functions, program your VME (and/or VXI) devices, and
develop and debug your application program. This program is described in detail in the NI-
VXI Text Utilities Reference Manual.
• is the text-based VXI Resource Editor program you use to configure the
vxitedit
system. Use the Non-VXI Device Editor in this program to identify details about VME
devices installed in your system. You must use this editor to instruct your system about the
addresses your VME devices occupy. The Resource Manager can then use this configuration
information to automatically open the hardware windows so that your Sun can access the
VMEbus. This program also displays the system configuration information generated by
after it configures the link to the VMEbus. In VXI systems, you also use this
resman
program to edit the model names of VXI devices and the manufacturer name and ID
numbers. This program is described in detail in the NI-VXI Text Utilities Reference Manual.
• contains the NI-VXI interface libraries for the NI-VXI device driver.
libnivxi*

Additional Programs and Files

The directory contains the following files.
/tbl
• contains the global data base of the manufacturer names and their ID
mfnameid.tbl
associations. This file is primarily used in VXI systems because VXI devices have
manufacturer IDs, and is not used in VME systems unless you manually enter information
about each VME device in your system through the use of the Non-VXI Device Editor.
• contains the global data base of the model names, manufacturer names, and
model.tbl
the model codes associations. This file is only used in VXI systems and is not used in VME
systems unless you manually enter information about each VME device in your system
through the use of the Non-VXI Device Editor.
• contains the global data base of the device names, manufacturer names, model
device.tbl
names, and frame and slot associations for the system. This file is only used in VXI systems
and is not used in VME systems unless you manually enter information about each VME
device in your system through the use of the Non-VXI Device Editor.
• contains the global data base for all non-VXI (VME) devices in the system.
nonvxi.tbl
This file is used for VME systems and describes the address space and interrupt requirements
of the VME devices in the system.
windows to the VMEbus. Use the Non-VXI Device Editor to configure the address space
requirements for your VME devices so that
properly.
• contains the system interrupt configuration information. In VXI systems,
intcfg.tbl
interrupts can be assigned dynamically. In VME systems, however, interrupts are statically
configured. This file also contains interrupt mapping information that can be used in a VME
system but only in a multimainframe situation.
VME-SB2020/NI-VXI/Solaris Getting Started
vxiinit.
resman
uses this file to determine how to open the
can configure the hardware windows
resman
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