Technical Articles
NI has published these technical articles:
(Data Acquisition)
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The rapid adoption of the PC in the last 20 years catalyzed a revolution in instrumentation for test, measurement, and automation. One major development resulting from the ubiquity of the PC is the...
(Networking Equipment)
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This document explains how to use IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cameras with NI products....
(Data Acquisition Products)
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The earliest form of recording data involved manually taking measurements, recording them to a written log, and plotting them on graph paper. In the late 19th century, this process was automated with...
(Electronics and Microelectronics Manufacturing)
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When developing an embedded system, deciding which portion of the system to design and which to buy off the shelf can be daunting. By designing and building a custom solution, you can customize the...
(Communication Service Providers)
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We aimed to develop wireless communication technology that could remarkably reduce the latency caused by a series of communication-related processes while multiple mobile phones, also called user...
(Bus Systems)
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Discusses the technical merits of several bus and platform technologies for use in test and measurement....
(Communication Devices)
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We needed to implement a cost-effective low-altitude aerial testbed that can verify novel wireless communications applications between the airborne node and ground terminals while meeting tight...
(Networking Equipment)
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This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with an Ethernet device. It will provide a brief overview of both NI-VISA and the Ethernet bus followed by a tutorial on...
(Networking Equipment)
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A Local Area Network (LAN), or Ethernet, platform is the ubiquitous standard for networking PCs and connecting to the Internet. With the ability to span long distances, it also has become a popular...
(Engineering and Scientific Software)
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For more than 20 years, engineers and scientists have used NI LabVIEW to interface with measurement and control devices. LabVIEW integrates seamlessly with thousands of different hardware devices, and...
(Bus Systems)
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When you have hundreds of different data acquisition (DAQ) devices to choose from on a wide variety of buses, it can be difficult to select the right bus for your application needs. Each bus has...
(Data Acquisition Products)
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Once you have chosen your data acquisition device, you can easily take for granted the process of selecting the right computer for your application. The computer can be the most crucial part of your...
(Data Acquisition Products)
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With many data acquisition (DAQ) devices to choose from, it can be difficult to select the right one for your application. This white paper outlines five questions that you should ask when selecting...
(Electrical and Electromagnetic Sensing)
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Learn how to measure current using transformers, transducers, and data acquisition devices. See how to use current measurements as part of a power quality analysis or power monitoring system
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(Industrial Controls Software)
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You can write today's instrument control applications using a number of different programming languages and technologies. Some of these technologies include NI LabVIEW, NI LabWindows™/CVI, NI...
(Engineering and Scientific Software)
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NI LabVIEW can run on most common OSs and deploy code to an array of hardware targets. This flexibility means you can choose the most appropriate computing platform, protecting your investment in the...
(Networking Equipment)
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Advances in networking technologies are continuously changing not only the way we do business, but also the way we setup our instrumentation systems. In this session, we cover fundamentals of...
(Data Acquisition Products)
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As part of the National Instruments Measurement Fundamentals Series, this set of tutorials helps you learn about a specific common measurement application topic through theory explanations and...
(Networking Equipment)
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Serial is a device communication protocol that is standard on almost every PC. Do not confuse it with universal serial bus (USB). Most computers include two EIA-232 based serial ports. Serial is also...
(Networking Equipment)
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Serial is a common device communication protocol for instrument control because most computers and many remote instruments include at least one serial port. Single applications can be used across a...
(Networking Equipment)
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With plug-and-play connectivity and the near ubiquity of USB ports on modern PCs and laptops, USB has become a popular choice for controlling stand-alone instrumentation. As more instrument...
(Engineering and Scientific Software)
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For more than 20 years, NI LabVIEW has been used by millions of engineers and scientists to develop sophisticated test, measurement, and control applications. While LabVIEW provides a variety of...
(Networking Equipment)
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LAN is one of several buses used to connect instruments to a PC. While there have been many claims that LAN(or other buses) are ideal for all applications, the reality is that each bus has different...
(Networking Equipment)
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This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with a USB device. It is not intended as a starting point for learning about USB architecture or the various protocols used...
(Acoustic and Audio Equipment)
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This application note discusses a technique known as beamforming for determining noise location of passing vehicles. The technique has several challenges including simultaneous acquisition of a large...
(Data Acquisition)
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Data logging and recording is a common measurement application. In its most basic form, data logging is the measuring and recording of physical or electrical parameters over a period of time. The data...
(Industrial Controls Software)
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Instrument control is a PC-based approach that combines programmable software and hardware connectivity for automating measurement acquisition from third-party instrumentation. An instrument control...