NI 6528 - Programming Devices in Software

© National Instruments Corporation 3 NI 6528/6529 User Guide and Specifications
• NI PCI-6528 devices must be installed into a slot that provides 3.3 V.
Check that the 3.3 V LED (reference designator DS1—located on the
visible edge of the underside of the installed device) is lit. If not, check
that the PC motherboard provides 3.3 V to the PCI bus.
Programming Devices in Software
National Instruments measurement devices 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 or later includes two NI-DAQ drivers, Traditional NI-DAQ
(Legacy) and NI-DAQmx. Each driver has its own API, hardware
configuration, and software configuration. Refer to the DAQ Getting
Started guides for more information about the two drivers.
Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) and NI-DAQmx each include 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
• Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) examples for Visual Basic are in the
following two directories:
–
NI-DAQ\Examples\Visual Basic with Measurement
Studio
directory contains a link to the ActiveX control examples
for use with Measurement Studio
–
NI-DAQ\Examples\VBasic directory contains the examples not
associated with Measurement Studio