Chapter 1
DAQ System Overview
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Analog Output Series User Manual
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Protect signal lines from magnetic fields caused by electric motors,
welding equipment, breakers, or transformers by running them through
special metal conduits.
Refer to the NI Developer Zone document,
Field Wiring and Noise
Considerations for Analog Signals
, for more information. To access this
document, go to
ni.com/info
and enter the info code
rdfwin
.
Programming Devices in Software
National Instruments measurement devices are packaged with NI-DAQ
driver software, an extensive library of functions and VIs you can call from
your application software, such as LabVIEW or LabWindows/CVI, to
program all the features of your NI measurement devices. Driver software
has an application programming interface (API), which is a library of VIs,
functions, classes, attributes, and properties for creating applications for
your device.
NI-DAQ 7.
x
includes two NI-DAQ drivers, Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy)
and NI-DAQmx. Each driver has its own API, hardware configuration, and
software configuration. Refer to the
DAQ Getting Started Guide
for more
information about the two drivers.
Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) and NI-DAQmx each include a collection of
programming examples to help you get started developing an application.
You can modify example code and save it in an application. You can use
examples to develop a new application or add example code to an existing
application.
To locate LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI examples, open the National
Instruments Example Finder:
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In LabVIEW, select
Help»Find Examples
.
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In LabWindows/CVI, select
Help»NI Example Finder
.
Measurement Studio, Visual Basic, and ANSI C examples are in the
following directories:
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NI-DAQmx examples for Measurement Studio-supported languages
are in the following directories:
–
MeasurementStudio\VCNET\Examples\NIDaq
–
MeasurementStudio\DotNET\Examples\NIDaq