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Chapter 6
NI-VXI Configuration Utility
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beneficial to disable the MXI-2 auto retry feature. With this feature 
disabled, you can lower the MXI Bus Timeout because there will be no 
delay due to the inward cycles being retried.
Note
The PCI-MXI-2 has a limit on the number of automatic retries they will perform on 
any one cycle. If the limit is exceeded and the PCI-MXI-2 receives another retry, it will 
pass a retry back to the MXIbus even though the Enable MXI-2 Auto Retry checkbox is 
checked.
A24/A32 Write Posting
This field determines whether to enable write posting for incoming slave 
accesses to A24/A32 VXI/VME shared RAM. By default this option is 
disabled—the Enable A24/A32 Write Posting checkbox is cleared.
Enabling write posting will increase the throughput of your inward cycles. 
However, you should not enable write posting unless the destination of your 
inward A24/A32 cycles is onboard RAM, because cycles to onboard RAM 
will always complete successfully.
PCI Bus
The following sections describe the options for the PCI Bus portion of this 
editor.
User Window and Driver Window
The PCI-MXI-2 driver requires the use of two PCI windows: a user 
window and a driver window. Calling the 
MapVXIAddress()
 function 
allocates regions of the user window to your application. 
VXIpeek()
 and 
VXIpoke()
 accesses are performed through this window. NI-VXI uses the 
driver window to perform high-level functions such as 
VXIin()
 and 
VXIout()
, and to access registers on the PCI-MXI-2 and 
VXI/VME-MXI-2.
The windows are mapped to PCI base address registers and determine the 
amount of PCI memory space the PCI-MXI-2 requests from the PCI system 
during initialization.