help for newbie

[newbieeng]

Thank you all responsed my questions. let me check whether I understood you right, there is no way to program with all aspects that I want without required devices.right?

[smercurio_fc]

That really depends on what "all aspects" means. All you've said so far is that  you want to be able to get some data. The simulated devices will do that.

What are NI-DAQmx Simulated Devices and How Do I Use Them?

[newbieeng]

ok as you said and as I mentioned earlier there is no matter of its signal type, so I can program as I want in this way via simulated devices. I confused about one point on it, for example, when we use a real device to measure a temperature, thermocouple sents a voltage signal to the device, so the device takes it as an input, if I use a simulated one, will this device generate this signal as an output? if it behaves in this way, shall I adjust it to generate an analog signal (voltage) or for thermocouple in its properties?

[Broken_Arrow]

It's actually easier than you are making it out to be. When you get your hardware, you'll hook it up and run MAX to get it identified and configured. So, there will be two "systems" in MAX - the simulated one, and the newly creeated real one. You'll simply tell DAQ Assistant that you want to read a thermocoupe (Analog Input > Thermocouple), for the cDAQ device in slot 1 (or wherever).