NI 5122/5124 Calibration Procedure
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Introduction
This document contains instructions for calibrating NI PXI/PCI-5122 and
NI PXI/PCI-5124 digitizers. This calibration procedure is intended for
metrology labs. This document describes specific programming steps for
writing an external calibration procedure for the NI 5122/5124.
The NI 5122/5124 supports two types of calibration: self-calibration (or
internal calibration) and external calibration.