National Instruments Measure Data Acquisition - Manual (Page 30)

Chapter 4 Analog Input Reference
Measure Data Acquisition User Manual 4-2 © National Instruments Corporation
Analog Input Configuration Overview
Select DAQ»Configure DAQ Tasks and then press the AI button to
open the Analog Input Configuration dialog box, shown in Figure 4-1.
The sections below describe the fields within the Analog Input
Configuration dialog box, and Table 4-2 explains the remaining
options at the bottom of the Analog Input Configuration dialog box.
Figure 4-1. Analog Input Configuration Dialog Box
Analog Input Scan List
To configure an acquisition, first you must select the channels that you
want to scan by entering a channel string in the Channels field. A scan
is one acquisition or reading from each channel in the Analog Input
Scan List. The scan list can have multiple entries of one or more
channels. Each entry has its own set of high and low limits which
determines the gains on the channels in the entry.
Channels
Specify channels to add to the scan list. A channel string can consist of
a single channel, a list of channels delimited by commas, a range of
channels denoted by the first and last channel of the range separated by
a colon, or any combination of the previous three types of syntax. The
order that you specify the channels in your channel string from