Hello,
The manner in which you interface with your card will depend on whether
it is a National Instruments card, or if it is from a 3rd party that
supplies its own DLLs. In the case of a National Instruments
acquisition card, you can simply install the drivers that shipped with
the card and access to the exposed functions will be available in your
function pallet.
In the case of a 3rd party card it will most likely be necessary to
make calls to their DLLs from LabVIEW. If the API for your
controller is offered as a set of DLL functions instead of one or more
VIs, you can use the
Call Library Function node in LabVIEW to
access the methods inside those DLLs. For more information about using this
node to call C-based functions from a DLL, please see this tutorial:
Can LabVIEW C? - Example 3:
Using the Right Tools with LabVIEW.
S. Arves S.
National Instruments
Applications Engineer