Starting out with NI-DAQmxbase on OS X

[Stuart_Field]

I have a NI-6030E board with which I need to do simple I/O under Mac OS X. I am using LV 7.1, and NI-DAQmxbase 1.5 (? I downloaded v1.5 and installed, but I'm not sure how to tell which version I have of mxbase).

To start, I just want to read one reading from a single analog input channel. I tried the example vi Acq One Sample.vi. This read in over 600 sub vi's. It also takes about 2 seconds to run once.

Is this all really necessary to do my simple task? Or is there a faster, lighter way to do this?

Thanks

[AlanArmstead]

Hello Stuart,

You are on the right track.  Your driver, NI-DAQmx Base, is written in LabVIEW and as you have seen, its VIs contain many subVIs.  However, after they are loaded the first time, opening another NI-DAQmx Base program will be much faster.  Also, after you run the program once, each subsequent run shouldn't take quite as long. 

-Alan A.