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SING THE
EMX-4250/4350/4380
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NTRODUCTION
This section describes how to use EMX-4250/4350/4380 using instrument driver. The instrument
driver provides an API that allows the user to configure and control the EMX-4250/4350/4380 cards
using high level commands.
Two types of drivers are available. One is an IVI driver based on the industry standard IVI driver
architecture specification. The IVI driver exposes both COM and C language interface APIs for the
Windows OSs. The other driver has C++ APIs for the Linux OS. Both Windows and Linux drivers
have a consistent API design so that the application software developed for one can be easily
migrated to the other. Our drivers are compatible with both the 32-bit and 64-bit operating system.
In general, the API descriptions in this document apply to both the Windows and Linux drivers
unless otherwise specified.