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© National Instruments Corporation 4-1 NI-IMAQ for IEEE-1394 Cameras User Manual
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Programming with
NI-IMAQ for 1394 VIs
This chapter describes how to use the NI-IMAQ 1394 VIs in LabVIEW.
Introduction
The NI-IMAQ for IEEE-1394 Cameras VI Library, a series of virtual
instruments (VIs) for using LabVIEW with your IMAQ 1394 device, is
included with your NI-IMAQ for 1394 software.
IMAQ Vision for LabVIEW is an image processing and analysis library
that consists of more than 250 VIs. If you have not purchased the
IMAQ Vision image processing and analysis libraries, you can use the four
IMAQ Vision VIs included with your NI-IMAQ for 1394 software. If you
use these basic functions, you can later upgrade your programs to use
IMAQ Vision processing capabilities without any changes to your image
acquisition VIs.
Before you start building your IMAQ application, you should know the
following basic IMAQ for LabVIEW concepts:
• Location of the NI-IMAQ for 1394 examples
• Location of the NI-IMAQ for 1394 VIs in LabVIEW
• Common NI-IMAQ for 1394 VI parameters
• Buffer management
• NI-IMAQ for 1394 acquisition types
• Acquisition VIs
• Triggering
• Image display
• Camera attributes
• Error handling
• Error code format