VXI/VME/MXI Interactive Communication Tools
National Instruments VXI/VME controller's ship with two interfaces for communicating with VXI/VME devices: NI-VXI and NI-VISA. Both NI-VISA and NI-VXI ship with tools that allow you to interactively communicate with your VXI/VME devices. These tools provide a valuable debugging environment and are also useful for learning more about the NI-VISA and NI-VXI function calls used to communicate with your instruments. VISAIC is the easiest and best trouble shooting tool to use for most users. VISAIC uses VISA function calls to communicate with your VXI/VME instruments. NI-VISA routes these calls to the lower level NI-VXI driver, which then communicates to your instruments. VISAIC requires that you have you installed both NI-VXI and NI-VISA correctly in order to function correctly. VIC and VICtext are useful for debugging NI-VXI function calls. VICtext is the only tool that is available on all platforms supported by NI-VXI. |
