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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Application Software
You can also use the National Instruments LabVIEW and
LabWindows/CVI application programs and instrument drivers to
ease your programming task. These standardized programs match the
modular virtual instrument capability of VXI and can reduce your VXI
software development time. These programs are fully VXI
plug&play
compliant and feature extensive libraries of GPIB, Serial, and VXI
instrument drivers written to take full advantage of direct VXI control.
LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI include all the tools needed for
instrument control, data acquisition, analysis, and presentation.
LabVIEW is a complete programming environment that departs from the
sequential nature of traditional programming languages and features a
graphical programming environment.
LabWindows/CVI is an interactive C development environment for
building test and measurement and instrument control systems. It includes
interactive code-generation tools and a graphical editor for building custom
user interfaces.