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5421/5441
Calibration
Procedure
MAX
To initiate self-calibration from MAX, complete the following steps:
1.
Launch MAX.
2.
Select
My System»Devices and Interfaces»PXI System
from the tree control.
3.
Select the device that you want to calibrate.
4.
Initiate self-calibration in one of the following ways:
•
Click
Self-Calibrate
in the upper right corner.
•
Right-click the device name and select
Self-Calibrate
from the drop-down menu.
FGEN Soft Front Panel
To initiate self-calibration from the FGEN Soft Front Panel (SFP), complete the following steps:
1.
Select the device that you want to calibrate using the
Device Configuration
dialog box
(
Edit»Device Configuration
).
2.
Open the
Calibration
dialog box (
Utility»Calibration
).
3.
Click
Perform self-calibration
.
NI-FGEN
To self-calibrate the NI 5421/5441 programmatically using NI-FGEN, complete the following
steps:
1.
Call
niFgen_init
(niFgen Initialize VI) to open an NI-FGEN session using the following
parameters:
•
resourceName
: The name of the device that you want to calibrate. You can find this
name under
Devices and Interfaces
in MAX.
•
IDQuery
:
VI_TRUE
•
resetDevice
:
VI_TRUE
•
vi
: A pointer to a ViSession. The variable passed by reference through this parameter
receives the value that identifies the session created by this function. This value acts
as the session handle and is passed as the first parameter to all subsequent NI-FGEN
functions.
2.
Call
niFgen_SelfCal
(niFgen Self Cal VI) using the following parameter:
•
vi
: The session handle returned from
niFgen_init
3.
Call
niFgen_close
(niFgen Close VI) to close the NI-FGEN session using the following
parameter:
•
vi
: The session handle returned from
niFgen_init
