National Instruments Software - National Instruments NI PXIe-8880 User Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction
• The Intel C610 Series chipset connects to the SPI, USB, Serial ATA, PCI Express, and LPC
buses.
• The USB Connectors connect the Intel C610 Series chipset to the Hi-Speed USB 2.0
interface and USB 3.0 interfaces.
• The Serial ATA Solid-State Drive is a 240 GB or larger notebook solid-state drive. The
Serial ATA interface enables transfer rates up to 600 MB/s. The solid-state drive also
supports Native Command Queuing.
• The PXI Express Connector connects the NI PXIe-8880 to the PXI Express/
CompactPCI Express backplane.
• Both the I210 and I217 Gigabit Enet ports connect to either 10 Mbit, 100 Mbit, or
1,000 Mbit Ethernet interfaces.
• The GPIB block contains the GPIB interface.

National Instruments Software

National Instruments has developed several software tools you can use with the NI PXIe-8880.
National Instruments' hardware and software work together to help you make the most of your
PXI Express system. The LabVIEW, Measurement Studio, and LabWindows
application development environments combine with leading hardware drivers such as
NI-DAQmx to provide exceptional control of NI hardware. Instrument drivers are available at
to simplify communication with instruments over a variety of buses.
ni.com/idnet
LabVIEW is a powerful and easy-to-use graphical programming environment you can use to
acquire data from thousands of different instruments including USB, IEEE 488.2, VXI, serial,
PLCs, and plug-in boards. LabVIEW helps you convert acquired data into meaningful results
using powerful data analysis routines. Add-on tools provide additional specialized functionality.
For more information visit
ni.com/labview
If you prefer to use Microsoft's Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual Studio .NET for the core
of your application, Measurement Studio adds tools for Measurement and Automation to each
language. For more information visit
LabWindows/CVI is an interactive ANSI C programming environment designed for building
virtual instrument applications. LabWindows/CVI delivers a drag-and-drop editor for building
user interfaces, a complete ANSI C environment for building your test program logic, and a
collection of automated code generation tools, as well as utilities for building automated test
systems, monitoring applications, or laboratory experiments. For more information visit
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ni.com/lwcvi
NI-DAQmx provides an extensive library of functions that you can call from your application
development environment or interactive environment such as NI Signal Express. These
functions provide an intuitive API for National Instruments' multifunction DAQ products.
Features available include analog input (A/D conversion), buffered data acquisition (high-speed
A/D conversion), analog output (D/A conversion), waveform generation, digital I/O,
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