Instrument Control Software and Hardware

NI Recommended: LabVIEW System Design Software

Develop measurement systems faster with LabVIEW through its graphical system design approach. LabVIEW is a single environment that connects to third-party instrumentation and provides extensive libraries for signal processing and data visualization. Use LabVIEW to program the specific needs of your application and don’t be bound by the limited functionality provided by vendor-defined software.

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Third-Party Instrument Drivers

NI heavily invests in developing hardware drivers to supply seamless integration into multiple programming environments and across multiple types of hardware devices and instruments. They are optimized to offer maximum I/O throughput with a high-level API and work well in a parallel, multithreaded environment.

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GPIB Hardware

As a leading GPIB vendor for more than 30 years, NI delivers highly reliable and stable hardware connectivity products and the de facto industry standard programming interface for GPIB communication. Innovative NI GPIB hardware and NI-488.2 driver technologies give you better performance and maximized reliability for connecting to third-party instrumentation.

Choose the right GPIB option for your instrument control system

Other Bus Options

If NI GPIB is not the right hardware connectivity for your instrument control system, rest assured that you have the freedom and flexibility to choose the right hardware connectivity to meet your application’s needs. In addition to GPIB compatibility, LabVIEW can integrate with any instrument bus including USB, Ethernet, serial, LXI, PCI, and PXI.

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Not sure what you need? Read how to choose the right hardware bus for your instrument control system.