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Introduction
This chapter describes the NI PXI/PCI-1411 (NI 1411) and describes your
software programming choices.
About the NI 1411
The NI 1411 is a monochrome and color image acquisition device for PXI,
PCI, or CompactPCI chassis that supports a diverse range of analog
cameras from many camera companies. The NI 1411 acquires images in
real time and can store these images in onboard frame memory, or transfer
these images directly to system memory.
The NI 1411 is simple to configure so that you can easily install the device
and begin acquiring images. The NI 1411 ships with NI Vision Acquisition
Software, which includes NI-IMAQ, the National Instruments driver
software you can use to directly control the NI 1411 and other National
Instruments image acquisition devices. Using NI-IMAQ, you can quickly
and easily start your applications without having to program the device at
the register level.
The NI 1411 features a precision color analog video decoder ideal for both
industrial and scientific environments. The NI 1411 device supports both
NTSC and PAL color standards as well as the RS-170 and CCIR
monochrome standards. The NI 1411 also provides one external I/O line
that you can use as a trigger or as a digital input/output (I/O) line. If you
require more advanced triggering or digital I/O lines, you can use the
NI 1411 and NI-IMAQ with the National Instruments data acquisition
(DAQ) product line.
For detailed specifications of the NI 1411, refer to the
Specifications
section of
Getting Started with the NI PXI/PCI-1411
.
