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Chapter 1
Introduction
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PXI-8150 Series User Manual
Optional Equipment
You can contact National Instruments to order the following optional
equipment:
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Enhanced parallel port adapter cable
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Single-shielded 2 m GPIB cable
National Instruments Software
National Instruments has developed several software kits that you can
use with the PXI-8150 Series. The software is already installed on your
hard drive.
The NI-488.2M software kit gives you access to the industry-standard
NI-488.2M software for controlling external GPIB instruments through
the GPIB port on the front panel of the PXI-8156. The GPIB interface
is fully compatible with the NI-488.2M driver for a variety of operating
systems. Any software using NI-488.2M will run on the PXI-8156.
You can use the NI-VISA high-level programming API to program
GPIB, serial, parallel, and PXI devices in much the same manner.
You can also use the National Instruments LabVIEW and
LabWindows/CVI application programs and instrument drivers to ease
your programming task. These standardized programs match the
modular virtual instrument capability of PXI and can reduce your PXI
software development time. These programs feature extensive libraries
of GPIB, Serial, and VXI instrument drivers written to take full
advantage of direct PXI control. LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI
include all the tools needed for instrument control, data acquisition,
analysis, and presentation.
LabVIEW is a complete programming environment that departs from
the sequential nature of traditional programming languages and features
a graphical programming environment.
LabWindows/CVI is an interactive C development environment for
building test and measurement and instrument control systems. It
includes interactive code-generation tools and a graphical editor for
building custom user interfaces.