playing a continuous waveform from the PCI-DIO-32HS with no LabVIEW, CVI, etc.

[bmihura]

I'd like to always have a particular waveform playing, but without a giant memory hog in the background like a LabVIEW or CVI executable. Can this be done?

[David L.]

Hi bmihura,

I would recommend building a program in LabVIEW, and then turning it into an executable. This would not take all the overhead, as it will only be using the LabVIEW run-time engine and DAQmx driver.

If you would still like to use C, C++, etc, you can program the 6533 (PCI DIO-32HS) using the Traditional DAQ or DAQmx function calls. I would highly encourage using DAQmx since you are starting from scratch. Once DAQmx is installed, you can find the ‘NI-DAQmx C Reference Help’ under Start » Programs » National Instruments » NI-DAQ.