Programming devices in software – National Instruments NI 6509 User Manual

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NI 6509 User Guide and Specifications

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 8.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

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MeasurementStudio\DotNET\Examples\NIDaq

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Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) examples for Visual Basic are in the
following two directories:

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NI-DAQ\Examples\Visual Basic with Measurement

Studio

directory contains a link to the ActiveX control examples

for use with Measurement Studio

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NI-DAQ\Examples\VBasic

directory contains the examples not

associated with Measurement Studio

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NI-DAQmx examples for ANSI C are in the

NI-DAQ\Examples\

DAQmx ANSI C Dev