Chapter 2
Hardware Overview
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National Instruments Corporation
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NI PCIe-1427 User Manual
Programmatically:
•
LabVIEW
—Use the serial interface programmatically, through calls
to the NI-IMAQ driver using the IMAQ Serial Write and IMAQ Serial
Read VIs. Access these files from the
<LabVIEW>\vi.lib\vision\
driver\imaqll.llb
directory.
•
C
—Use the serial interface programmatically, through calls to the
NI-IMAQ driver using the
imgSessionSerialWrite
and
imgSessionSerialRead
functions.
Note
clsercon.exe
, IMAQ Serial Write, IMAQ Serial Read,
imgSessionSerialWrite
, and
imgSessionSerialRead
are used for direct manual
access of the NI 1427 serial port and are not required for most users.
National Instruments also fully supports the recommended serial API
described in the
Specifications of the Camera Link Interface Standard for
Digital Cameras and Frame Grabbers
manual. This manual is available on
several Web sites, including the Automated Imaging Association Web site
at
www.machinevisiononline.org
.
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