National Instruments PCI-8430 - Time-Saving Development Tools

Time-SavingDevelopmentTools
YourkitincludestheNI-Serialsoftware.Inaddition,youcanorder
LabVIEWorLabWindows™/CVI™softwarefromNationalInstrumentsto
speedyourapplicationdevelopmenttimeandmakeiteasierto
communicatewithyourinstruments.
LabVIEWisaneasy-to-use,graphicalprogrammingenvironmentyoucan
usetoacquiredatafromthousandsofdifferentinstruments,including
IEEE488.2devices,VXIdevices,serialdevices,PLCs,andplug-indata
acquisitionboards.Afteryouhaveacquiredrawdata,youcanconvertit
intomeaningfulresultsusingthepowerfuldataanalysisroutinesin
LabVIEW.LabVIEWalsocomeswithhundredsofinstrumentdrivers,
whichdramaticallyreducesoftwaredevelopmenttime,becauseyoudo
nothavetospendtimeprogrammingthelow-levelcontrolofeach
instrument.
LabWindows/CVIisaninteractiveANSICprogrammingenvironment
designedforbuildingvirtualinstrumentapplications.LabWindows/CVI
deliversadrag-and-dropeditorforbuildinguserinterfaces,acomplete
ANSICenvironmentforbuildingyourtestprogramlogic,andacollection
ofautomatedcodegenerationtools,aswellasutilitiesforbuilding
automatedtestsystems,monitoringapplications,orlaboratory
experiments.
AfteryouinstallyourserialhardwareandtheNI-Serialsoftware,youcan
useNI-VISAinLabVIEWandLabWindows/CVIwithyourserialinterface.
Ifyoualreadyhaveoneormoreoftheseapplicationsandwanttouse
themwithyourserialinterface,refertoyourproductdocumentationfor
informationaboutserialI/Ofunctions.Fororderinginformation,contact
NationalInstruments.
NI-VISAisastandardI/Oapplicationprogramminginterface(API)for
instrumentationprogramming.
Initsfullimplementation,NI-VISAcancontrolUSB,FireWire,VXI/VME,
PXI,GPIB,TCP/IP,orserialinstruments,makingtheappropriatedriver
callsdependingonthetypeofinstrumentbeingused.NI-VISAusesthe
sameoperationstocommunicatewithinstrumentsregardlessofthe
interfacetype.Forexample,theNI-VISAcommandtowriteanASCII
stringtoamessage-basedinstrumentisthesamewhetherthe
instrumentisserial,USB,GPIB,orVXI.Asaresult,NI-VISAgivesyou