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NI 5421/5441 Calibration Procedure
Introduction
This document contains instructions for calibrating the NI 5421/5441
arbitrary waveform generator. This calibration procedure is intended for
metrology labs. It describes specific programming steps for writing an
external calibration procedure for the NI 5421/5441.
Refer to
ni.com/calibration
for additioan information about
calibration solutions from National Instruments.
Software and Documentation Requirements
This section describes the software and documentation required for both
self-calibration and external calibration.
Software
Calibrating the NI 5421 requires installing NI-FGEN version 2.0 or later on
the calibration system. Calibrating the NI 5441 requires installing
NI-FGEN version 2.3 or later on the calibration system. You can download
NI-FGEN from the Instrument Driver Network at
ni.com/idnet
.
NI-FGEN supports programming the
and the
External Calibration Procedures
in the LabVIEW, LabWindows
™
/CVI
™
,
and C application development environments (ADEs). When you install
NI-FGEN, you only need to install support for the ADE that you intend to
use.
For LabWindows/CVI, the NI-FGEN function panel (
niFgen.fp
)
provides help about the functions available. LabVIEW support is in the
niFgen.llb
file, and all calibration functions appear in the function
palette.
