© National Instruments Corporation 1-1 NI 5102 User Manual
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Introduction
This chapter describes the National Instruments (NI) 5102 and lists
additional equipment.
About Your NI 5102
Thank you for your purchase of an NI 5102. The NI 5102 family consists
of five different devices tailored to your choice of bus: the PCI, the PXI,
the ISA, the PCMCIA, and the universal serial bus (USB). Your NI 5102
has the following features:
• Two 8-bit resolution analog input channels
• Real-timesamplingrateof20MS/sto1kS/s;1GS/srandom
interleaved sampling (RIS)
• 15 MHz analog input bandwidth
• Analog trigger channel with software-selectable level, slope,
and hysteresis
• Two digital triggers
• Software-selectable AC/DC coupling
• 663,000-sample onboard memory
• Real-Time System Integration (RTSI) triggers (PCI, PXI, and ISA
form factors only)
All NI 5102 devices follow industry-standard Plug and Play specifications
on all platforms and offer seamless integration with compliant systems. If
your application requires more than two channels for data acquisition, you
can synchronize multiple devices on all platforms using RTSI bus triggers,
on devices that use the RTSI bus, or the PFI digital triggers on the
I/O connector. The NI 5102 (PXI) uses the PXI trigger bus for multiboard
synchronization. Unless otherwise noted, any discussion of the RTSI
trigger bus is also applicable to the PXI trigger bus for the NI 5102 (PXI)
in this manual.
