The National Instruments PXI-1042 is an eight-slot PXI chassis with seven peripheral slots and a universal AC power supply.
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The PXI-1042 provides a powered, cooled enclosure for modular PXI systems. NI identifies office, laboratory, and educational environments as intended settings for this chassis.
Its backplane provides a dedicated system controller slot, a star trigger slot, a trigger bus, and a system reference clock. Controller selection and module installation are covered in the NI PXI-1042 Series User Manual.
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| Total slots | 8 slots |
|---|---|
| Peripheral PXI slots | 7 slots |
| Maximum system bandwidth | 132 MB/s |
| Operating temperature | 0 to 55 °C |
| Onboard clock oscillator | VCXO — |
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No. NI specifies zero PXI Express slots and zero hybrid slots.