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Pickering Interfaces strives to fulfil all relevant environmental laws and regulations and reduce wastes and releases to the environment. Pickering Interfaces aims to design and operate products in a way that protects the environment and the health and safety of its employees, customers and the public. Pickering Interfaces endeavours to develop and manufacture products that can be produced, distributed, used and recycled, or disposed of, in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.
If this product is heavy reference should be made to the safety instructions for provisions of lifting and moving. STATIC SENSITIVE To indicate that static sensitive devices are present and handling precautions should be followed. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D REED RELAY MODULE 40-110/115/120/125 Page (IV) Page (IV)
Sequence Service and Triggering ........5.1 Unit Architecture ..............5.2 Command Line Control of LXI Instruments ......5.4 Section 6 Trouble Shooting .................6.1 LXI Status Indicators .............6.2 Unit Reset ................6.3 Appendix A Rack Mounting The Chassis ............A.1 LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page (V)
Unused slots in this chassis are populated with blanking panels to prevent access to user I/O signals that may be present. Blanking panels are available to order from Pickering. If the product is not used in this manner for example by using an extender card then additional care must be taken to avoid contact with exposed signals.
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• Ensure the equipment is installed, operated and maintained by trained and authorised personnel. • For suitably equipped products in the event of an emergency press the red “emergency stop” button situated on the front of the unit. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page (VIII)
Windows and VISA environment. The half rack width and compact 4U height of the 60-102D allows The 60-102D is compliant with the LXI Standard 1.4 and supports efficient use of space. One 100 cfm fan insures maximum module...
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Example home page for a Modular Chassis - provides fast access to configuration information for the chassis through any web browser. Example General Soft Front Panel - The 60-102D provides soft front panels to enable manual operation of PXI modules.
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These sequences can be triggered by software (subject to module support). or - for the 60-102D-002 - by one of the sixteen software Chassis Capacity: 7 off 3U user slots available. configurable open collector triggers.
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Optional 19” rack mounting hardware* 63-924-001 Weight: 4.2 kg without PXI modules * Please refer to the 60-102D User Manual for information on the optional chassis mounting hardware. pickeringtest.com Page 4 LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 1.4...
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LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D The 60-102D is part of a range of PXI and PXIe Hybrid chassis which includes PXI chassis with an LXI or USB control interface. Pickering’s Range of PXI & PXIe Chassis Chassis Type Number of Slots Chassis Size Model No.
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PXI Switching and Sensor Simulation Pickering is a leading manufacturer of PXI switching and sensor simulation modules, available in PXI and PXIe formats. With our deep portfolio of over 1,000 modules, we provide the assurance that you can optimize your test system switching and simulation to exactly fit your needs.
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1200+ products. We offer everything from simple mating connectors to complex cables assemblies and terminal blocks. All assemblies are manufactured by Pickering and are guaranteed to mechanically and electrically mate to our modules. These accessories are detailed in Connector Accessories data sheets, where a complete list and documentation can be found for each accessory.
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Supporting Products & Software 60-102D Programming Pickering provide kernel, IVI and VISA (NI & Keysight) drivers which are compatible with all Microsoft supported versions of Windows and popular older versions. For more information go to pickeringtest.com/os The VISA driver support is provided for LabVIEW Real Time Operating Systems (Pharlap and Linux-RT). For other RTOS support contact Pickering.
Front panel mounted LXI interface status LEDs. • Front panel mounted OLED display of IP address. • Front panel mounted 25-pin male Micro-D connector for Triggering function (60-102D-002 only). • Front panel mounted USB3 type-B connector for control of the chassis. •...
Functional Description The 60-102D Chassis is capable of supporting a wide range of PXI switching cards in a self-contained unit, the only connections required are power and an Ethernet or USB lead. The chassis consists of a 7-slot PXI/compactPCI compatible backplane and a controller card with power being supplied from an internal mains power unit.
PXI Module Support The 60-102D supports a wide variety of Pickering Interfaces 3U PXI modules, the backplane of the chassis is conformant to the PXI standard. The chassis LXI interface is conformant with the stated version of the LXI standard.
Site Considerations The 60-102D is designed to operate on a bench and is supplied fitted with feet fitted that allow the front of the unit to be tilted upwards. It should be noted that there is an air intake in the underside of the chassis therefore it is important not to allow any restrictions underneath the unit.
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Figure 3.2 - Cooling Airflow through the 60-102D LXI/USB Chassis The 60-102D expels cooling air through an exhaust vent in the rear panel. When the chassis is in use, make sure that this outlet is not restricted in any way.
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Ethernet Port (RJ45 Connector) USB Control Port (USB3 typeB Connector) LXI Status Indicators Control Module PXI Module Slots Figure 3.3 - Front of the 60-102D-001 LXI/USB Chassis showing PXI slots, Controller card and Ethernet Interface Backplane Power Power On/Standby Status Indicators Switch IP Address Display +3.3V +5V...
Rack Mounting The Chassis The 60-102D can be fitted into a standard 19 inch equipment rack using the optional 63-924-001 Mounting Kit. The kit consists of a frame into which the chassis is mounted that increases the overall height to 5U and allows space for cooling air to be drawn into the underside of the chassis.
SECTION 4 - CONFIGURATION & SET-UP Default Configuration The 60-102D Modular Chassis has factory default settings causing it to behave in the ways listed below. If the user makes changes to the chassis’ configuration pages this behaviour may no longer apply.
USB Cable 3. Insert the other end of the cable into a free USB port on your host computer, then power on the 60-102D chassis If this is the first time the chassis has been connected to your computer, a dialog screen will be displayed: 4.
Seting the IP Address To use the 60-102D LXI Modular Chassis over a LAN connection it should be set up and configured as described in the “LXI Getting Started Guide” document. If the IP address is to be set manually and before connecting to a network, contact your IT department so they can give you the correct settings for: •...
SECTION 5 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE Programming options for Pickering Interfaces LXI Units For information on the installation and use of drivers and the programming of Pickering’s products in various software environments, please refer to the Software User Manual. This is available as a download from: https://www.pickeringtest.com/support/software-drivers-and-downloads...
It is vital to know that location in order to specify the address of the switch to be controlled. Pickering provide software tools to help you discover the bus and device number of the cards in your LXI unit. Refer to the distribution disk that came with your unit in the folder LXI Products/Tools.
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0, device 20. For full details of how to access and use Pickering drivers the user is advised to refer to the individual documentation packs provided with the installed drivers, this can be found on the distribution disk that came with your unit.
LXI instrument from the Windows utility PILMon and provides identical functionality. Enabling the Command Line Control Utility Pickering LXI devices do not provide an SSH server in the normal configuration state, the service must be explicitly enabled.
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LAN Reset button located on the front of the controller module in the appropriate manner, refer to Section 6 of this manual for details of this process. Disabling security will stop the SSH service. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 5.5...
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The username for instrument control is ‘sshuser’, the password is that defined by the user when setting security. Once the username and password have been supplied, the LXI device will enter an application providing a command line interface to the switch cards within the device. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 5.6...
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Before attempting to control a card it is important to understand the switch architecture of that card and to know how to address the required switch. Each Pickering switch card is represented as a set of one or more sub-units, each sub-unit containing one or more switches.
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0 otherwise. <bit(int)> Mask switch on selected subunit of index <bit>. Switch cannot be SwitchMask operated until unmasked. SwitchUnmask <bit(int)> Clear mask of switch on selected subunit of index <bit>. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 5.8...
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<column(int)> <row(int)> Mask switch on selected matrix subunit in position XpointMask <column> <row>. Switch can’t be operated until unmasked.” <column(int)> <row(int)> Clear mask of switch on selected matrix subunit in XpointUnmask position <column> <row>. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 5.9...
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RESTRICTED = 1 Gets/Sets different range on the Thermocouple cards. Applicable 41-760 and 41 761 products. Applicable Parameters: ATTR_TS_SET_RANGE 0x40A TS_AUTO_RANGE = 0 (Default) TS_LOW_RANGE = 1 TS_MED_RANGE = 2 TS_HIGH_RANGE = 3 LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 5.10...
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So a quick example to operate a bit on the card would be: COA > open all cards LS > list the cards USL 1 1 > Select the card 1 and sub-unit 1 SC 1 > energize bit 1 LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 5.11...
Ethernet connection is changing. This is usually caused by user action: connected ethernet cable or LAN configuration change. Green Green Orange ServerBridge is terminated in this state and waiting to establish the Ethernet connection. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 6.1...
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1 minute. So if the bootup takes too long or you still cannot see RDY and LAN lights on after a few minutes, please contact your local sales office, because this means the sofware or hardware are faulty. Please contact your local Pickering Interfaces sales office for any further support or email: Lxisupport@pickeringtest.com You can also visit our website for product updates, help and downloadable materials at: http://www.pickeringtest.com...
Pressing the ‘LAN Reset’ button on the front panel of the Controller module causes the chassis to be set back to factory default conditions. This will destroy all user configuration and reset the LAN configuration (enabled DHCP and AutoIP). LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page 6.3...
APPENDIX A - RACK MOUNTING THE CHASSIS To allow the 60-102D chassis to be fitted in a 19 inch equipment rack it can be simply mounted on a standard equipment shelf, or preferably, it can be fitted with the 63-924-001 rack mounting kit. The kit allows the chassis to be securely fixed in a rack with top and bottom spacing to provide the correct flow of cooling air.
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NOT be used to support the weight of the whole unit. The weight of the unit must be supported by side brackets, runners or a suitable equipment shelf. LXI/USB 7-Slot Modular Chassis 60-102D Page A.2...
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