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HP VXI E1432A User Manual

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The actual instrument driver itself is a DLL (Dynamic Linked Library)
created from:

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A set of source (.C) files.

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A set of header (.H) files, used for compiling the file as well as to describe the
driver’s calls to any program using the driver.

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A standard driver library (.LIB) file, to provide the standard functionality all the
drivers would require.

This DLL is a set of calls to perform instrument actions — at heart, that’s
all a VXIplug&play driver is — a library of instrument calls.

This driver is accessed by Windows applications programs written in
languages such as Visual C++ or Visual BASIC, using programming
environments such as VEE or NI LabView.

A Windows Help (.HLP) file is included which provides descriptive
information and code samples for the functions in the VXIplug&play DLL.
This help file can be viewed in the standard Windows Help viewer. A
viewer for HP-UX is provided in /opt/hyperhelp - see the READ.ME file.

Manufacturer and model codes

If desired, you can read the manufacturer code, model code and name of
the VXI instruments from the file /opt/e1432/lib/vximodel.cf (on unix
systems) or :\hpe1432\lib\vximodel.cf (on PC systems).

The following are the Hewlett-Packard VXI models in this file:

Manufacturer Code

Model Code

Model Name

0xfff

0x200

E143xA Non-booted Substrate Board

0xfff

0x201

E1432A 16 Channel 51.2 kSa/s Digitizer + DSP

0xfff

0x202

E1433A 8 Channel 196 kSa/s Digitizer + DSP

0xfff

0x203

E1434A 4 Channel 65 kSa/s Arbitrary Source

0xfff

0x210

E1562A/B/D/E Data Disk SCSI Interface

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