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© National Instruments Corporation 3-1 NI-DAQ User Manual for PC Compatibles
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Software Overview
This chapter describes the function classes in NI-DAQ and briefly
describes each function.
NI-DAQ functions are grouped according to the following classes:
• Initialization and general-configuration
• Software-calibration and device-specific
• Event message
• Analog input function group
– One-shot analog input
• Single-channel analog input
– Data acquisition
• High-level data acquisition
• Low-level data acquisition
• Low-level double-buffered data acquisition
• Analog output function group
– One-shot analog output
– Waveform generation
• High-level waveform generation
• Low-level waveform generation
• Digital I/O function group
– Digital I/O
– Group digital I/O
• Double-buffered digital I/O
– Change Notification
– Filtering
• Counter/Timer function group
– Counter/timer
– Interval counter/timer
– General-purpose counter/timer