National Instruments SHC68-H1X38 manual

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    USER GUIDE Digital Flying Lead Cable Accessor y for Single-Ended NI Digi tal W aveform Generator/Analyzers The NI SHC68-H1X38 cable is a singl e-ended cable that breaks out each NI digital wav eform generator/analyzer signal in to two 0.1 inch header receptacles, one receptacle each for the signal and ground. The NI SHC68-H1X38 cable provides an ea[...]

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    Digital Flying Lead Cable User Guide 2 ni.com What Y ou Need to Get Started To set up and use the NI SHC68-H1X38 cable, you need the following items: ❑ Compatible NI digi tal wav eform gene rator/analyzer , installed in a PXI chassis, compactPCI ch assis, or PCI slot ❑ The documentation included wi th the digital wav eform generator/analyzer an[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 3 Di gital Flying Lead Cable User Guide Parts Locator Refer to Figure 1 to locate connectors and comp onents on the NI SHC68-H1X38 cable. The lead pair s are shown in more d etail in Figure 2. Figure 1. NI SHC68-H1X38 Cable Parts Locator Diagram 1 Lead Pairs 2 Removable Sleeving 3 68-Pin VHDCI Connector 1 2 3[...]

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    Digital Flying Lead Cable User Guide 4 ni.com Figure 2. Detailed Parts Loc ator Diagram for the Lead Pairs Connecting Signals Each DIO, PFI, and clock channel of the NI digital waveform generator/analyzer connects to a co rresponding pair of leads on the NI SHC68-H1X38 cable. The NI SHC68-H1X38 cable is separated into two bundles of 19 channels, an[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 5 Di gital Flying Lead Cable User Guide CLK OUT / PFI 4 For de vices that have a DDC CLK OUT channel, this signal is the exported sample clock signal. Otherwise, th is is PFI 4. Bundle A PFI <1..3> Programmable functional interface PFI <1..3>. PFI 1: Bundle A PFI <2..3>: Bundle B Reserved / PFI [...]

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    Digital Flying Lead Cable User Guide 6 ni.com Using Y our Accessor y The NI SCH68-H1X38 cable breaks out every signal through a 50 Ω characteristic impedance microcoaxial cable, which is then split into the two leads with receptacles. This cab le was designed for both acquisition and generation operations with your single-ended NI digital wavefor[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 7 Di gital Flying Lead Cable User Guide Specifications Digital I/O DIO Channels .................... ..................... 32, single-ended Control I/O Channels ........... .................. 6, single-ended Typical Propagation delay ...... ............... 13.5 ns Typical channel-to-channel skew........... ±250 [...]

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