National Instruments PXI-GPIB Getting Started
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©National Instruments Corporation4-1PXI-GPIB/PMC-GPIB for Windows NTChapter4Begin to Use theGPIB SoftwareThis chapter helps you get started with the GPIB software forWindows NT.Getting Started with LabVIEWLabVIEW is a graphical programming language in which your source codelooks like a flowchart. It provides the same functionality as otherprogramming languages when controlling GPIB instruments. If youalready installed LabVIEW, you can use the LabVIEW GPIB functionswithout any additional installation. To learn about the basic concepts ofGPIB communication, refer to the LabVIEW GPIB functions chapter in theLabVIEW User Manual. To learn more about each GPIB function, refer tothe LabVIEW Function and VI Overview Manual and the online help.National Instruments provides LabVIEW instrument drivers, which areapplications that communicate to a specific GPIB instrument. LabVIEWinstrument drivers eliminate the need to learn the complex, low-levelprogramming commands for each instrument. For more information, referto Chapter 7, Getting Started with a LabVIEW Instrument Driver, in theLabVIEW User Manual. If you want to write your own instrument driver,National Instruments provides application notes that help you get started.To find GPIB examples similar to your application, click on the SolutionWizard and Search Examples buttons in the startup LabVIEW dialog box.For more information about NI products, refer to our web site athttp://www.natinst.com/products/.Getting Started with LabWindows/CVIIf you already installed LabWindows/CVI, you can use theLabWindows/CVI GPIB Library without any additional installation. TheLabWindows/CVI GPIB Library includes the functions documented inyour NI-488.2 or NI-488.2M reference manual, as well as severaladditional functions, which are documented in the GPIB library chapter of |
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