National Instruments NI 5911 User Manual

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Chapter 1 Taking Measurements with the NI 5911© National Instruments Corporation 1-3 NI 5911 User ManualAcquiring Data with Your NI 5911You can acquire data either programmatically—by writing an applicationfor your NI 5911—or interactively with the Scope Soft Front Panel.Programmatically Controlling Your NI 5911To help you get started programming your NI 5911, NI-SCOPE comeswith examples that you can use or modify.You can find examples for these different ADEs:• LabVIEW—Go to Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW\Examples\Instr\niScopeExamples\• LabWindows/CVI, C, and Visual Basic with Windows 98/95—Go tovxipnp\win95\Niscope\Examples\c\• LabWindows/CVI, C, and Visual Basic with Windows 2000/NT—Goto vxipnp\winnt\Niscope\Examples\For information about using NI-SCOPE to programmatically control yourdigitizer, refer to your NI-SCOPE Software User Manual. Other resourcesinclude the NI-SCOPE Instrument Driver Quick Reference Guide. Itcontains abbreviated information on the most commonly used functionsand LabVIEW VIs. For more detailed function reference help, see theNI-SCOPE Function Reference Help file, located at Start»Programs»National Instruments»NI-SCOPE. For more detailed VI help,use LabVIEW context-sensitive help (Help»Show Context Help) or theNI-SCOPE VI Reference Help, located at Start»Programs»NationalInstruments»NI-SCOPE.Interactively Controlling Your NI 5911 with the Scope Soft Front PanelThe Scope Soft Front Panel allows you to interactively control yourNI 5911 as you would a desktop oscilloscope. To launch the Scope SoftFront Panel select Start»Programs»National Instruments»NI-SCOPE»NI-SCOPE Soft Front Panel. Refer to the Scope Soft Front Panel Helpfile for instructions on configuring the Scope Soft Front Panel for yourspecific application.Note Press F1 with the Scope Soft Front Panel running to access the Scope Soft FrontPanel Help.