National Instruments PXI-1428 - Manual (Page 25)

Chapter 3 Hardware Overview
IMAQ PCI/PXI-1428 User Manual 3-6 ni.com
You can use the serial interface interactively with MAX and
clsercon.exe , or programmatically with LabVIEW and C.
Interactively:
• MAX—Use MAX with a camera file containing preprogrammed
commands. When an acquisition is initiated, the commands are sent to
the camera.
• clsercon.exe —Use National Instruments terminal emulator for
Camera Link, clsercon.exe , if a camera file with preprogrammed
serial commands does not exist for your camera. With
clsercon.exe , you can still communicate serially with your camera.
Go to <NI-IMAQ>\bin to access clsercon.exe .
Programmatically:
• LabVIEW—Use the serial interface programmatically, through calls
to the NI-IMAQ driver using the IMAQ Serial Write and IMAQ Serial
Read VIs. Go to
<LabVIEW>\vi.lib\vision\driver\
imaqll.llb to access these files.
• C—Use the serial interface programmatically, through calls to the
NI-IMAQ driver using
imgSessionSerialWrite and
imgSessionSerialRead .
Note clsercon.exe , IMAQ Serial Write, IMAQ Serial Read,
imgSessionSerialWrite , and imgSessionSerialRead are used for directly
accessing the IMAQ 1428 serial port and are not required for most users.
National Instruments also fully supports the recommended serial API
described in the Specifications of the Camera Link Interface Standard for
Digital Cameras and Frame Grabbers manual.