Chapter1 Introduction
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Figure 1-1. TheRelationship Among the Programming Environment,
NI-DAQ,and the Hardware
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National Instruments ADE Software
LabVIEW featuresinteractive graphics, a state-of-the-art interface,
and a powerful graphical programming language. The LabVIEW Data
AcquisitionVI Library, a series of virtual instrumentsfor using LabVIEW
with NationalI nstrumentsD AQ hardware, is included with LabVIEW.
MeasurementS tudio, which includes LabWindows™/CVI™,tools for
VisualC++, and tools for Visual Basic, is a development suite that allows
you to use ANSI C, VisualC++, and Visual Basic to design the test and
measurementsoftware. For C developers, Measurement Studio includes
LabWindows/CVI,a fully integrated ANSI C application development
environmentthat features interactive graphics and the LabWindows/CVI
Data Acquisition and Easy I/O libraries. For VisualBasic developers,
MeasurementS tudio features a set of ActiveXcontrols for using National
Instruments DAQhardware. These ActiveX controls provide a high-level
programming interface for building virtual instruments. For VisualC++
developers,Measurement Studio offers a set of Visual C++ classes and
toolsto integrate those classes into Visual C++ applications. The libraries,
LabVIEW,
MeasurementStudio,
orVI Logger
Conventional
Programming
Environment
NI-DAQ
DAQHardware
Personal
Computeror
Workstation