National Instruments

National Instruments is a company that builds solutions for automation of equipment, measurements and control processes.

RadiMation^® is using the National Instruments NI-488.2 library, to control the GPIB boards to communicate over the GPIB bus.

Also the NI-VISA library of National Instruments is often used to communicate over LAN or USB-TMC with measurement devices.

Links

• Website: http://www.ni.com
• Wikipedia: National Instruments

General Purpose Industrial Bus: A communication system used to 'remote control' test and measurement equipment.

The Virtual Instrument Software Architecture is a standard for configuring, programming, and troubleshooting instrumentation systems comprising GPIB, VXI, PXI, Serial, Ethernet, and/or USB interfaces.

Universal Serial Bus: A modern serially controlled communication system, found on all new PC's