Chapter 2
Hardware Overview
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•
clsercon.exe
—Use National Instruments terminal emulator for
Camera Link,
clsercon.exe
, if a camera file with preprogrammed
serial commands does not exist for your camera. With
clsercon.exe
, you can still communicate serially with your camera.
Go to
<NI-IMAQ>\bin
to access
clsercon.exe
.
Programmatically:
•
LabVIEW
—Use the serial interface programmatically, through calls
to the NI-IMAQ driver using the IMAQ Serial Write and IMAQ Serial
Read VIs. Go to
<LabVIEW>\vi.lib\vision\driver\
imaqll.llb
to access these files.
•
C
—Use the serial interface programmatically, through calls to the
NI-IMAQ driver using
imgSessionSerialWrite
and
imgSessionSerialRead
.
Note
clsercon.exe
, IMAQ Serial Write, IMAQ Serial Read,
imgSessionSerialWrite
, and
imgSessionSerialRead
are used for directly
accessing the NI 1428 serial port and are not required for most users.
National Instruments also fully supports the recommended serial API
described in the
Specifications of the Camera Link Interface Standard for
Digital Cameras and Frame Grabbers
manual.
