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Instrument Control

National Instruments offers an extensive assortment of instrument control hardware and software tools to help save you time and money throughout the life of your instrument control system. You can rely on bus hardware for GPIB, USB, Ethernet, and serial and software tools including National Instruments LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and instrument drivers that offer improved performance, high reliability, and increased productivity.

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Instrument Control System Components

Instrument Control Bus Hardware

: GPIB
Plug-in and external controllers, industry-standard development software, custom ASICs, support products, and cables and accessories for GPIB applications

: Serial Interfaces
Complete family of serial interfaces and driver software for communication with industrial devices using RS232, RS422, and RS485 serial buses

: USB
Family of converter products to control GPIB or serial devices from the USB port of your desktop or laptop PC

: Ethernet/LAN
Family of converter products to control GPIB or serial devices on an Ethernet/LAN-based network from your desktop or laptop PC

Instrument Control Software

: Instrument Control Software
Software development environments optimized for instrument control including LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and Measurement Studio

: Instrument Drivers
More than 5,000 FREE instrument drivers available for download to simplify and reduce the cost of instrument control test program development

: I/O Software
Comprehensive I/O software packages for configuring, troubleshooting, and controlling instrumentation hardware systems

Instruments

: Modular Instruments
Compact, high-performance measurement hardware devices with integrated timing and synchronization resources including digitizers, function and arbitrary waveform generators, high-speed digital I/O, digital multimeters, and RF measurement hardware for PCI and PXI

: PXI
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) is the open, multivendor standard for measurement and automation that delivers more than 10 times the performance of older measurement and automation architectures

: Stand-Alone Instruments
See resources and download instrument drivers for controlling and automating your stand-alone instruments

Third Party Partners

: LabVIEW, SignalExpress, and Tektronix
Tools to quickly solve your design challenges and efficiently automate your tests by combining the advanced analysis and automation capabilities of LabVIEW and SignalExpress and the high-precision measurements of Tektronix oscilloscopes.

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