
Chapter1 Introduction
©NationalInstruments Corporation 1-5 6023E/6024E/6025EUser Manual
Figure1-1. TheRelationship Between the Programming Environment,
NI-DAQ,and Your Hardware
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Optional EquipmentNational Instruments offers a variety of products to use with your device,
including cables, connector blocks, and other accessories, as follows:
•Cablesand cable assemblies, shielded and ribbon
•Connector blocks, shielded and unshielded screw terminals
•RTSIbus cables
•SCXImodules and accessories for isolating, amplifying, exciting, and
multiplexingsignals for relays and analog output. With SCXI you can
condition and acquire up to 3,072 channels.
•Lowchannel count signal conditioning m odules, devices,and
accessories,i ncludingconditioning for strain gauges and RTDs,
simultaneous sampleand h old, and relays
Conventional
ProgrammingEnvironment
NI-DAQ
DriverSoftware
DAQ or
SCXIHardware
Personal
Computeror
Workstation
LabVIEW,
MeasurementStudio,
orVirtualBench