National Instruments NI PXI-8108 User Manual page 16

Chapter 1 Introduction
NI PXI-8108 User Manual
NI-VISA is the National Instruments implementation of the VISA
specification. VISA is a uniform API for communicating and controlling
USB, Serial, GPIB, PXI, VXI, and various other types of instruments.
This API aids in the creation of portable applications and instrument
drivers. For information on writing your own PXI instrument driver
with NI-VISA, refer to the NI-VISA Getting Started Manual and the
file in the NI-VISA directory. For more information visit
readme.txt
.
ni.com/visa
With LabVIEW for Linux and support for over two hundred devices on
Linux with the NI-DAQmx driver, you can now create Virtual Instruments
based on the Linux OS. Instrument control in Linux has been improved by
the NI-VISA driver for Linux and NI Modular Instruments are partially
supported. For more information visit
ni.com/linux
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ni.com