National Instruments NI PXIe-8105

Chapter 1 Introduction

specialized functionality. For more information visit ni.com/labview

and ni.com/toolkits.

If you prefer to use Microsoft’s Visual Basic, Visual C++, and

VisualStudio .NET for the core of your application, Measurement Studio

adds tools for Measurement and Automation to each language. For more

information visit ni.com/mstudio.

LabWindows/CVI is an interactive ANSI C programming environment

designed for building virtual instrument applications. LabWindows/CVI

delivers a drag-and-drop editor for building user interfaces, a complete

ANSI C environment for building your test program logic, and a collection

of automated code generation tools, as well as utilities for building

automated test systems, monitoring applications, or laboratory

experiments. For more information visit ni.com/lwcvi.

NI-DAQmx provides an extensive library of functions that you can call

from your application development environment or interactive environment

such as NI Signal Express. These functions provide an intuitive API for

National Instruments’ multifunction DAQ products. Features available

include analog input (A/D conversion), buffered data acquisition

(high-speed A/D conversion), analog output (D/A conversion), waveform

generation, digital I/O, counter/timer operations, SCXI signal conditioning,

RTSI or PXI synchronization, self-calibration, messaging, and acquiring

data to extended memory. For more information visit ni.com/daq.

National Instruments’ Modular Instruments use specialized drivers suited

to each product’s specialization. Express VIs provide customized,

interactive programming of instruments in a single interface and soft front

panels provide an interface for testing the functionality of each instrument

with no programming required. NI Switches, DMMs, High-Speed DIO,

High-Speed Digitizers, and Sources each have customized drivers for

high-end modular instrumentation systems. RF applications leverage two

drivers, NI-RFSG and NI-RFSA and Dynamic Signal Acquisition is

available through NI-DAQmx. For more information visit ni.com/

modularinstruments.

You can expand the timing and triggering functionality of your PXI system

with PXI Timing and Synchronization products. These products provide

precision clock sources, custom routing of triggers for multi-chassis

synchronization, clock sharing, and more and are programmed with

NI-Sync. For more information visit ni.com/pxi.