VME-PCI Interface

The interface between the PC and the VME is done by the VME-PCI 8026 interface board from National Instruments. It consists of a PCI card and a VME slot 0 module. The bus system that connect these two cards is MXI-2. Linux driver software from NI is used. In the following the setup of the interface is described.

Using victedit

The victedit program is used to configure the VME-TEM2 board. This program comes with the nivxi software. The following settings are used:

addressing A32
base address 0x8000000
address range 0x800ffff
byte order Motorola
address mode supervisory


Initilizing the VME interface

  1. The pci-vme interface has to be initilized. If the nivxi kernel module is not loaded it has to be loaded by executing the script load_vxi. The path for it is /usr/local/nivxi/sys. Usually only root has the priveleges to do so.
  2. Run the nivxi resource manager resman
Last modified: Fri Nov 3 09:53:00 PST 2000