National Instruments NI VXIpc-882 User Manual
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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You can also use the National Instruments LabVIEW application program
and instrument drivers to ease your programming task. This standardized
program matches the modular virtual instrument capability of VXI and can
reduce your VXI software development time. This program features
extensive libraries of GPIB, Serial, and VXI instrument drivers written to
take full advantage of direct VXI control. LabVIEW includes all the tools
needed for instrument control, data acquisition, analysis, and presentation.
LabVIEW is an easy-to-use, graphical programming environment you can
use to acquire data from thousands of different instruments, including
IEEE 488.2 devices, VXI devices, serial devices, PLCs, and plug-in data
acquisition boards. After you have acquired raw data, you can convert it
into meaningful results using the powerful data analysis routines in
LabVIEW. LabVIEW also comes with hundreds of instrument drivers,
which dramatically reduce software development time, because you do not
need to spend time programming the low-level control of each instrument.