Firmware Image Files; Language Interface Files; Application Examples; Interaction Of Software Components With Your Application - National Instruments NI-CAN User Manual

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Firmware Image Files

All National Instruments CAN hardware products contain an on-board
microprocessor. This microprocessor is used so that all time-critical aspects
of the NI-CAN software can be executed separately from your Windows
application. The firmware image which runs on the on-board
microprocessor,
nican.nfw
your NI-CAN application starts up.

Language Interface Files

• A documentation file,
NI-CAN language interface files.
• A 32-bit C language include file,
prototypes, host data types, and various predefined constants.
• A 32-bit C language interface file,
Microsoft C/C++ applications to access the NI-CAN DLL.
• A 32-bit C language interface file,
C/C++ (5.0 or greater) applications to access the NI-CAN DLL.
• A 32-bit C language interface file,
LabWindows/CVI applications to access the NI-CAN DLL.
• NI-CAN function panels for LabWindows/CVI (
you to develop a CAN application with LabWindows/CVI.
• A 32-bit G function library,
applications to access the NI-CAN DLL.

Application Examples

The NI-CAN software includes three sample applications. For a detailed
description of the sample application files, refer to Chapter 4,
Examples.
Interaction of Software Components with Your
Application
Figure 1-5 shows the interaction between your application and the NI-CAN
software components.
, is loaded and executed automatically when
, contains information about the
readme.txt
nican.h
nicanmsc.lib
nicanbor.lib
nican.lib
nican.llb
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, contains NI-CAN function
, is used by
, is used by Borland
, is used by
) enable
nican.fp
, is used by LabVIEW
Application
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