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Chapter 1
Introduction
RTSI
The NI 7330 motion controller supports the National Instruments Real-Time System Integration
(RTSI) bus. The RTSI bus provides high-speed connectivity between National Instruments
products, including image acquisition (IMAQ) and data acquisition (DAQ) products. Using the
RTSI bus, you can easily synchronize several functions to a common trigger or timing event
across multiple motion, IMAQ, or DAQ devices.
What You Need to Get Started
To set up and use the NI 7330 motion controller, you must have the following items:
NI PXI-7330 or PCI-7330 motion controller
NI-Motion 6.1 or later driver software and documentation
One of the following software packages and documentation:
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LabVIEW 6.0 or later
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LabWindows
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/CVI
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7.0 or later
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Measurement Studio
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C/C++
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Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
A computer with an available PXI or PCI slot
Software Programming Choices
NI-Motion is a simple but powerful high-level application programming interface (API) that
makes programming the NI 7330 motion controller easy. You can execute all setup and motion
control functions by calling into a dynamically-linked library (DLL). You can use the full
function set implementations for LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI, or call the NI-Motion
libraries from C and Visual Basic.
National Instruments Application Software
LabVIEW is based on the graphical programming language, G, and features interactive graphics
and a state-of-the-art user interface. In LabVIEW, you can create 32-bit compiled programs and
stand-alone executables for custom automation, data acquisition, test, measurement, and control
solutions. National Instruments offers NI-Motion driver software support for LabVIEW, which
includes a series of virtual instruments (VIs) for using LabVIEW with National Instruments
motion control hardware. The NI-Motion VI library implements the full NI-Motion API and a
powerful set of demo functions; example programs; and fully operational, high-level application
routines.
