
Chapter 1
Introduction
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Figure 1-1.
The Relationship Between the Programming Environment,
NI-DAQ, and Your Hardware
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Optional Equipment
National Instruments offers a variety of products to use with your device,
including cables, connector blocks, and other accessories, as follows:
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Cables and cable assemblies, shielded and ribbon
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Connector blocks, shielded and unshielded screw terminals
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RTSI bus cables
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SCXI modules and accessories for isolating, amplifying, exciting, and
multiplexing signals for relays and analog output. With SCXI you can
condition and acquire up to 3,072 channels.
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Low channel count signal conditioning modules, devices, and
accessories, including conditioning for strain gauges and RTDs,
simultaneous sample and hold, and relays
Conventional
Programming Environment
NI-DAQ
Driver Software
DAQ or
SCXI Hardware
Personal
Computer or
Workstation
LabVIEW,
Measurement Studio,
or VirtualBench