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Chapter 11
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IVI Configuration Store
The IVI Configuration Store holds information about the IVI drivers installed on your
computer and configuration information for your instrument system. By providing a
way to flexibly reference and configure IVI drivers and instrument I/O connections
outside of your application, the IVI Configuration Store makes interchangeability
possible.
Consider an application in which you use a specific driver to communicate with a
specific instrument model at a fixed location. Change anything – the driver, the
model, the location – and you have to modify the application to accommodate that
change.
That’s when the Configuration Store comes into play. An IVI Configuration Store
offers the capability to work with different instrument drivers, models, or locations,
without having to modify your application. You can imagine how useful this can be
when using a compiled application that you cannot easily modify.
The IVI Configuration Store contains data that describe: the software modules used
to control the instruments, the hardware assets that perform measurement or
stimulus functions, the driver session that associates the software and hardware,
and the logical name that lets you point to a specific session.
SoftwareModule
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SoftwareModule
provides information about a particular
instrument driver software component that is installed and registered on your
system. This read-only component is commonly provided by the instrument vendor