Programming instructions

© National Instruments Corporation 2-1 LabVIEW Data Acquisition Basics Manual
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Installing and Configuring Your
Data Acquisition Hardware
This chapter explains how to set up your system to use data acquisition
with LabVIEW and your data acquisition hardware. The chapter contains
hardware installation and configuration and software configuration
instructions and some general information and techniques.
Note
The LabVIEW installer prompts you to have the NI-DAQ driver software
installed. All National Instruments data acquisition (DAQ) devices are packaged
with NI-DAQ driver software. The version of NI-DAQ packaged with your
DAQ device might be newer than the version installed by LabVIEW. You can
determine the NI-DAQ version in LabVIEW by running the Get DAQ Device
Information VI, located in Functions»Data Acquisition»Calibration and
Configuration.
After installing LabVIEW and the NI-DAQ driver, follow the steps
in Figure 2-1 to install your hardware and complete the software
configuration. LabVIEW uses the software configuration information
to recognize your hardware and to set default DAQ parameters.
Get DAQ Device
Information VI