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OFTWARE
NSTALLATION
The fastest way to begin controlling an EMX-75XX card is to discover the EMX-2500 chassis in
which the card can be plugged. This can be found using the LXI Discovery Tool utility (a free tool
available
http://lxistandard.org/Resources/LXIDiscoveryTool.aspx
The LXI Discovery Tool searches for all LXI Devices on the LAN Subnet. It uses mDNS and
VXI-11 protocols to detect the LXI Instruments. The mDNS service additionally has some
dependency on "Apple Bonjour Print Services" and hence the user has to install this service in the
system to perform discovery mechanism. However, it is not mandatory to install this service, since
LXI devices use various other protocols and services for discovery.
D
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RIVER
NSTALLATION
VTI Instruments provides two types of drivers for this instrument. For Windows there is an IVI
driver, based on the industry standard IVI driver architecture specifications. The IVI driver
exposes both IVI-COM and IVI-C interface APIs. The IVI-COM interface can be used from any
programming language that supports Microsoft COM (Component Object Model). For Linux,
there is a driver that provides a C++ API. Both Windows and Linux drivers have a consistent API
design so that the application software developed for one can be easily migrated to the other. The
drivers are compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. In general, the API
descriptions in this document apply to both the Windows and Linux drivers unless otherwise
specified.
To control the EMX-75XX series card programmatically (via a user generated program or through
tools such as Agilent VEE®, NI LabVIEW®, Mathworks Matlab®, etc.), two additional
components must be installed: the IVI Shared Components library (for Windows OS only) or the
VTI Common Library (for Linux OS only) and the provided VTI Instruments driver. For 32-bit
Windows OS, install the 32-bit driver. For Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit), and Windows
10 (64-bit), the 64-bit driver installer includes both 64-bit and 32-bit compatible drivers. These
drivers
(www.vtiinstruments.com), in the respective product page, under download tab. The following
sections describe installing the required software.
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