NI 5421/5441 Calibration Procedure
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3.
Select the device that you want to calibrate.
4.
Initiate self-calibration in one of the following ways:
•
Click
Self-Calibrate
in the upper right corner.
•
Right-click the device name under Devices and Interfaces,
and select
Self-Calibrate
from the drop-down menu.
FGEN Soft Front Panel
To initiate self-calibration from the FGEN SFP, complete the following
steps:
1.
Select the device that you want to calibrate using the Device
Configuration dialog box (
Edit»Device Configuration
).
2.
Open the Calibration dialog box (
Utility»Calibration
).
3.
Click
Perform self-calibration
.
NI-FGEN
To self-calibrate the NI 5421/5441 programmatically using NI-FGEN,
complete the following steps:
1.
Call
niFgen_init
(niFgen Initialize VI) to open an NI-FGEN session
using the following parameters:
•
resourceName
: The name of the device that you want to calibrate.
You can find this name under Devices and Interfaces in MAX.
•
IDQuery
:
VI_TRUE
•
resetDevice
:
VI_TRUE
•
vi
: A pointer to a ViSession. The variable passed by reference
through this parameter receives the value that identifies the
session created by this function. This value acts as the session
handle and is passed as the first parameter to all subsequent
NI-FGEN functions.
2.
Call
niFgen_SelfCal
(niFgen Self Cal VI) using the following
parameter:
•
vi
: The session handle returned from
niFgen_init
3.
Call
niFgen_close
(niFgen Close VI) to close the NI-FGEN session
using the following parameter:
•
vi
: The session handle returned from
niFgen_init
