Agilent NI-VISA Read Me First Manual free download

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READ ME FIRST NI-VISATM FOR WINDOWS NT/95/98: WINNT, GWINNT, WIN95, AND GWIN95 FRAMEWORKS NI-VISA is a standard I/O Application Programming Interface (API) for instrumentation programming. NI-VISA can control VXI/VME, PXI, GPIB, or Serial instruments, making the appropriate driver calls depending on the type of instrument being used. NI-VISA uses the same operations to communicate with instruments regardless of the interface type. For example, the NI-VISA command to write an ASCII string to a message-based instrument is the same whether the instrument is Serial, GPIB, or VXI. As a result, NI-VISA gives you interface independence. This makes it easier to switch bus interfaces and means that users who must program instruments for multiple interfaces need learn only one API. Another advantage of NI-VISA is that it is an object-oriented API that will easily adapt to new instrumentation interfaces as they evolve, making application migration to the new interfaces easy. VISA is the industry standard for developing instrument drivers. Most current drivers written by National Instruments use NI-VISA and support Windows NT/95/98, Solaris 2, HP-UX, VxWorks, and Macintosh, as long as the appropriate system-level drivers are available for that platform. CVI TM, LabVIEW TM, NI-488.2 TM, NI-VISA TM, NI-VXI TM, and VXIpc TM are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. Product and company names are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. 321217E-01