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NI-488.2 User Manual for Windows Index-2 © National Instruments Corp.
opening devices, 3-8
placing device offline, 3-10
processing of data, 3-10
program shell (illustration), 3-7
reading measurement, 3-10
triggering devices, 3-9
waiting for measurement, 3-9 to 3-10
NI-488 functions, 3-2 to 3-3
advantages, 3-2
board functions, 3-2 to 3-3
device functions, 3-2
one device per board, 3-2 to 3-3
NI-488.2 applications
configuring instruments, 3-15
finding all Listeners, 3-13
flowchart of programming with routines, 3-12
general steps and examples, 3-13 to 3-16
identifying instruments, 3-13 to 3-14
initialization, 3-13
initializing instruments, 3-14
items to include, 3-11
placing board offline, 3-16
processing of data, 3-16
program shell (illustration), 3-12
reading measurement, 3-16
triggering instruments, 3-15
waiting for measurement, 3-15 to 3-16
NI-488.2 routines, 3-3
wibic for communicating with devices, 3-5
asynchronous I/O application example, 2-6 to 2-7
ATN (attention) line, 1-3
ATN status word condition
bit position, hex value, and type (table), 3-4
description, A-4
automatic serial polling. See serial polling.
auxiliary functions, wibic
! (repeat previous function), 5-15
$ (execute indirect file), 5-16
+ (turn display on), 5-15
- (turn display off), 5-15
buffer (set buffer display mode), 5-17
help (display help information), 5-15
n* (repeat function n times), 5-16
print (display the ASCII string), 5-17
set (select device or board), 5-15
table of functions, 5-14