getting started with ni hardware

[Gak]

Hi everyone,

I am using NI hardware for the first time.Are there any video tutorials and pdfs which will tell me information about them?

for example NI RIO, PXI, PCI. Their functions and how to use them?

I have used compact DAQ by reading on NI site but could not find topics on listed hardware.

Please help

Thank you.

[LucaP.]

Hi Gaurav,

NI-RIO, PXI or PCI are just platforms or buses! It would be interesting to know what kind of e.g. PCI products (DAQ, FPGA, Motion, Instruments Bus, etc.) you're using.

Anyway:

1. Watch this: Getting Started with NI Products

2. Read the user manual of the product you're using.

3. Go to the main website of the product you're using. You'll find usually addtional help.

[aeastet]

One really nice thing that NI added a while back was the help in Measurement and Automation Explorer that shows how to attach the sensor to the Daq card. If you click on the measurement and automation Icon.

The program starts. Click the DaqMX Global Virtual Channels and add the type of device that you want to add. It will take you through a few steps then it will show you how to connect to the device.

[Ben]

That connections diagram is a nice faeture!

Another one that I use to get started starts at the same screen but a tab over where you can use your task in MAX.

If you go and save that task you can then go to LV and...

1) Drop a DAQmx task and choose the task you saved in MAX.

2) Right click on it and choose "generate code and configuration"

LV will generate all of the code required to match your config in MAX.

At that point you can re-write it correctly and ge the same results you saw in MAX.

Ben

[Gak]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your help.