National Instruments 800 Series - Manual (Page 15)

Chapter 1 Introduction
© National Instruments Corporation 1-3 VXIpc 800 Series User Manual
Optional Equipment
You can contact National Instruments to order any of the following
optional equipment:
• COM1/2 adapter cable
• Enhanced parallel port adapter cable
• Single-shielded 2 m GPIB cable
• Upgrades for the VXIpc 800 Series modular CPU card
Optional Software
National Instruments has developed several software kits that you can
use with the VXIpc 800 Series. The NI-VXI bus interface software for
the VXIpc 800 includes a Resource Manager, an interactive VXI
resource editor program, a comprehensive library of software routines
for VXI/VME programming, and an interactive control program for
interacting with VXI/VME. You can use this software to seamlessly
program multiple-mainframe configurations and have software
compatibility across a variety of VXI/VME controller platforms.
The NI-488.2 software kit gives you accessibility to the
industry-standard NI-488.2 software for controlling external GPIB
instruments through the GPIB port on the front panel of your VXIpc 800
Series. The GPIB interface on your VXIpc controller is fully compatible
with the NI-488.2 driver for a variety of operating systems. Any
software using NI-488.2 will run on the VXIpc 800.
You can also use the National Instruments LabVIEW and
LabWindows/CVI application programs and instrument drivers to ease
your programming task. These standardized programs match the
modular virtual instrument capability of VXI and can reduce your
VXI/VMEbus software development time. These programs are fully
VXIplug&play compliant and feature extensive libraries of VXI
instrument drivers written to take full advantage of direct VXI control.
LabVIEW is a complete programming environment that departs from
the sequential nature of traditional programming languages and features
a graphical programming environment.