Chapter 4 VirtualBench-DSA
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National Instruments Corporation 4-3 Getting Started with Virtua lBench
Acquiring and Measuring Signals
You can start acquiring and measuring signals with VirtualBench-DSA
by following these steps:
1. Connect a signal to the Channel 0 or 1 input of your DAQ device.
Please refer to the user manual of your DAQ device for details.
2. Configure the DSA.
a. Select Settings from the Edit menu on the front panel.
b. Select the Hardware tab, from the DSA Settings dialog box.
c. Select the Device that you want to use for the data acquisition.
The device must be successfully configured in the NI-DAQ
Configuration Utility to appear in the Device list.
d. Set Channel A or B to Channel 0 or 1, depending on where you
connected the signal in step one.
e. Change the Input Voltage Range to reflect the upper and lower
limit of your signal (in volts).

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