Chapter 1
Getting Started
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National Instruments modular instruments use specialized drivers suited to
each product’s specialization. Express VIs provide customized, interactive
programming of instruments in a single interface, and soft front panels
provide an interface for testing the functionality of each instrument with no
programming required. NI switches, DMMs, high-speed DIO, high-speed
digitizers, and sources each have customized drivers for high-end modular
instrumentation systems. RF applications leverage two drivers, NI-RFSG
and NI-RFSA, and dynamic signal acquisition is available through
NI-DAQmx. For more information, visit
ni.com/
modularinstruments
.
You can expand the timing and triggering functionality of your PXI system
with PXI timing and synchronization products. These products provide
precision clock sources, custom routing of triggers for multichassis
synchronization, clock sharing, and more, and are programmed with
NI-Sync. For more information, visit
ni.com/pxi
.
NI-VISA is the National Instruments implementation of the VISA
specification. VISA is a uniform API for communicating and controlling
USB, Serial, GPIB, PXI, VXI, and various other types of instruments. This
API aids in the creation of portable applications and instrument drivers. For
information about writing your own PXI instrument driver with NI-VISA,
refer to the
NI-VISA Help
and the
readme.txt
file in the NI-VISA
directory. For more information, visit
ni.com/visa
.
With LabVIEW for Linux and support for more than 200 devices on Linux
with the NI-DAQmx driver, you can now create virtual instruments based
on the Linux OS. The NI-VISA driver for Linux has improved instrument
control in Linux, and NI modular instruments are partially supported. For
more information, visit
ni.com/linux
.
