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NI 6509 User Guide and Specifications
Programming Devices in Software
National Instruments measurement devices for USB are packaged with
NI-DAQ driver software, an extensive library of functions and VIs you
can call from your application software, such as LabVIEW or
LabWindows
™
/CVI
™
, to program all the features of your NI measurement
devices. Driver software has an application programming interface (API),
which is a library of VIs, functions, classes, attributes, and properties for
creating applications for your device.
NI-DAQ 8.
x
includes NI-DAQmx, which has its own API, hardware
configuration, and software configuration. Refer to the
NI-DAQmx for USB
Getting Started Guide
for more information.
NI-DAQmx includes a collection of programming examples to help you get
started developing an application. You can modify example code and save
it in an application. You can use examples to develop a new application or
add example code to an existing application.
To locate LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI examples, open the National
Instruments Example Finder:
•
In LabVIEW, select
Help»Find Examples
.
•
In LabWindows/CVI, select
Help»NI Example Finder
.
Measurement Studio, Visual Basic, and ANSI C examples are in the
following directories:
•
NI-DAQmx examples for Measurement Studio-supported languages
are in the following directories:
–
MeasurementStudio\VCNET\Examples\NIDaq
–
MeasurementStudio\DotNET\Examples\NIDaq
•
NI-DAQmx examples for ANSI C are in the
NI-DAQ\Examples\
DAQmx ANSI C Dev
directory
For additional examples, refer to
zone.ni.com
.
