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NI High-Speed Digitizers Getting Started Guide
NI Example Finder
LabVIEW and CVI users can use the NI Example Finder to search or browse examples. NI-SCOPE
examples are classified by keyword, so you can search for a particular device or measurement function.
To browse for NI-SCOPE examples available in LabVIEW or LabWindows/CVI, launch the
application, select
Help»Find Examples
, then navigate to
Hardware Input and Output»Modular
Instruments»NI-SCOPE (High-Speed Digitizers)
.
8. Making Your First Measurement
To begin making measurements with an NI high-speed digitizer, complete the following steps:
1.
Launch your ADE.
2.
Navigate to
Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-SCOPE»Examples
and open one of
the examples. If you are not sure which example to run, begin with the Getting Started example.
3.
Enter the correct string into the
resource name
control or parameter. This string varies if the
digitizer is a Traditional NI-DAQ device. For more information about device names, refer to any of
the following resources.
•
Section
6. Configuring and Testing in MAX
of this document
•
NI High-Speed Digitizers Help»Programming»Reference»NI-SCOPE LabVIEW
Reference»VIs»niScope Initialize
•
NI High-Speed Digitizers Help»Programming»Reference»NI-SCOPE Function
Reference Help»Functions»niScope_init
4.
Adjust the parameters, if necessary, to capture the input signal that you want to acquire.
5.
Connect the signal that you want to acquire to one of the input channels of the digitizer. For
information about the appropriate connections, refer to
Appendix A: Front Panels for SMC-Based
Devices and USB Devices
or to
Appendix B: Front Panels for Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy)
Devices
.
6.
Run the example program.
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