National Instruments NI PXI-5422 FGEN Soft Front Panel, NI-FGEN

3. Select the device that you want to calibrate.

4. Initiate self-calibration in one of the following ways:

•Click Self-Calibrate in the upper right corner.

• Right-click the device name under Devices and Interfaces,

and select Self-Calibrate from the drop-down menu.

FGEN Soft Front Panel

To initiate self-calibration from the FGEN SFP, complete the following

steps:

1. Select the device that you want to calibrate using the Device

Configuration dialog box (Edit»Device Configuration).

2. Open the Calibration dialog box (Utility»Calibration).

3. Click Perform self-calibration.

NI-FGEN

To self-calibrate the NI PXI-5422 programmatically using NI-FGEN,

complete the following steps:

1. Call niFgen_init (niFgen Initialize VI) to open an NI-FGEN session

using the following parameters:

•resourceName: The name of the device that you want to calibrate.

You can find this name under Devices and Interfaces in MAX.

•IDQuery: VI_TRUE

•resetDevice: VI_TRUE

•vi: A pointer to a ViSession. The variable passed by reference

through this parameter receives the value that identifies the

session created by this function. This value acts as the session

handle and is passed as the first parameter to all subsequent

NI-FGEN functions.

2. Call niFgen_SelfCal (niFgen Self Cal VI) using the following

parameter:

•vi: The session handle returned from niFgen_init

3. Call niFgen_close (niFgen Close VI) to close the NI-FGEN session

using the following parameter:

•vi: The session handle returned from niFgen_init