National Instruments SCXI-1130, Getting Started Manual

Programming the NI Switch Product

You can acquire data interactively using the NI-SWITCH Soft Front Panel (SFP), or you can

control the device programmatically using the NI-SWITCH instrument driver. You can then

use NI-SWITCH to program the device in the application development environment (ADE) of

your choice.

Table 4.

 NI Switch Product Programming Options

Application

Programming

Interface (API)

Location

Description

NI-SWITCH SFP

Available from the Start menu or

NI Launcher in Windows 8.

Provides a graphical interface for

controlling and viewing the state

of your NI switch product.

NI-SWITCH

Instrument Driver

LabVIEW or LabWindows/CVI—

Available on the LabVIEW

Functions palette at 

Measurement

I/O

»

NI-SWITCH

.

Features a set of operations and

attributes that exercise all the

functionality of the NI switch

product, including configuration,

control, and other device-specific

functions.

C or LabWindows/CVI—

Available at 

Program Files

\IVI Foundation\IVI

\Drivers\niSWITCH

.

Installed examples for Visual

C/C++ are in the

NI-SWITCH Readme

.

Refer to the 

Creating an

Application with Microsoft Visual

C/C++

 topic in the 

NI Switches

Help

 for information about

developing an NI-SWITCH

application.

NI-DAQmx

Instrument Driver

Available from the Start menu or

NI Launcher in Windows 8. To

locate examples, go to 

ni.com/info

and enter the Info Code

daqmxexp

. For additional

examples, refer to 

zone.ni.com

.

You can operate NI switch

products with the NI-DAQmx

API. NI-DAQmx is useful when

using hardware scanning with

multiple NI switch products. The

NI-DAQmx API supports all NI

switch products and is not IVI

compliant.

NI-SWITCH Examples

Examples demonstrate the functionality of the device and serve as programming models and

building blocks for your own applications. The NI Example Finder is a utility available for

some software applications that organizes examples into categories and allows you to easily

NI Switches Getting Started Guide

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