National Instruments NI-IMAQ Programming with NI-IMAQ for 1394 VIs

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Programming with
NI-IMAQ for 1394 VIs
This chapter describeshow to use the NI-IM AQ 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.
IMAQVision for LabVIEW is an image processing and analysis library
that consists of more than 250 VIs. If you havenot purchased the
IMAQVision image processing and analysis libraries,you can use the four
IMAQVision VIs included with your NI-IMAQ for 1394 software. If you
use these basic functions, you can later upgrade your programs to use
IMAQVision processing capabilities without any changes to your image
acquisition VIs.
Before you start buildingyo ur IMAQapplication, you should know the
followingbasic IMAQ for LabVIEW concepts:
•Location of the NI-IMAQfor 1394 examples
•Location of the NI-IMAQfor 1394 VIs in LabVIEW
•Common NI-IMAQfor 1394 VI parameters
•Buffermanagement
•NI-IMAQfor 1394 acquisition types
•Acquisition VIs
•Triggering
•Image display
•Camera attributes
•Error handling
•Errorc ode format