Developing Your Application
Chapter 3
NI-488.2M SRM for OS/2
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NI-488 Program Shell
Figure 3-1 is a flowchart of the steps to create your application program using
NI-488 functions. The flowchart is for device-level calls.
No
Yes
No
No
Closed All
Boards/Devices?
Yes
START
or
Open Board/Device by Specifying Name
(ibfind)
Open Device without Knowing Device Name
(ibdev)
Are All
Boards/Devices
Open?
Make a Device-Level Call
• Send Data to Device
• Receive Data from Device
• Clear Device
• Serial Poll Device
and so on
(ibwrt)
(ibrd)
(ibclr)
(ibrsp)
Finished GPIB
Programming?
Close Board or Device
(ibonl)
END
Yes
Figure 3-1. General Program Shell Using NI-488 Device Functions