Application Program Interface
allows developers to create code that works with operating systems, applications and websites.
See Also: API
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PCIe-8431, PCI Express, 16-Port, RS485/RS422 Serial Interface Device
780592-02
Serial Interface
The PCIe‑8431/16 is a high-performance interface for high-speed communication with RS485 and RS422 devices. It features high-performance DMA transfers, multithreading, and multiprocessor support. You can also select between 4‑ and 2‑wire transceiver modes for full‑ and half‑duplex communication. NI serial interfaces also appear as standard COM ports for compatibility with programs that use serial communications.
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Interface
RCNIC-A2PA
Interface
The RCNIC platform is a high performance PMC module for the AFDX/ARINC 664 protocol. With two independent ports for traffic monitoring, traffic generation, external triggering and analysis, the RCNIC provides high-resolution time-tagging of incoming packets simultaneously with highly accurate traffic generation.
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FPGA UDP Packet Interface Connnecting 3-4 Channels of MIL-STD-1553 to Ethernet in Real-Time
ENETX-1553
Ethernet Interface
ENETX-1553™ is an innovative product that provides “remoting” of 1553 operations on 10/100/1000 Ethernet IP/UDP local area networks (LAN). ENETX-1553 is a small, low-power, rugged device that provides real-time Ethernet connectivity to for three or four dual redundant 1553 (A/B) buses (channels). Ideal for remoting 1553 connections for in-field applications or point-point lab usage. AltaAPI provides and highly portable BSD SDK and National Instruments LabVIEW and LabWindows. ENET products are unique in the market as they have a hardware, FPGA real-time UDP engine – no OS or IP stacks – provides maximum throughput and ultimate virus protection.
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USB Interface for 1-2 MIL-STD-1553 Channels
NLINE-U1553
USB Interface
The NLINE-U1553 implements the latest USB 3 SuperSpeed technology for 1-2 dual redundant, independent 1553 channels. Full function capability for Bus Controller (BC), multi-RT (mRT), and Bus Monitor (BM). Also, o-scope signal capture on the first channel to troubleshoot bus signals. All built-in a small, rugged cable assembly that allows the customer to easily connect with standard 1553 jack connectors, or make their own custom cable with a Lemo break-away standard. USB 2 backward compatible (but not recommended – USB 3 offers superior throughput performance).
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PXI-8513 , 2-Port, Software-Selectable PXI CAN Interface Module
780688-02
CAN Interface
2-Port, Software-Selectable PXI CAN Interface Module—The PXI‑8513 is a software-selectable Controller Area Network (CAN) interface for developing applications with the NI‑XNET driver. NI‑XNET Software‑Selectable CAN Interfaces offer the best flexibility for CAN development with onboard transceivers for High-Speed/Flexible Data‑rate, Low-Speed/Fault Tolerant Single Wire CAN as well as any external transceiver. The PXI‑8513 excels in applications requiring real-time, high-speed manipulation of hundreds of CAN frames and signals, such as hardware‑in‑the‑loop simulation, rapid control prototyping, bus monitoring, automation control, and more. The NI‑XNET device-driven DMA engine enables the onboard processor to move CAN frames and signals between the interface and the user program without CPU interrupts.
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sbRIO-9870, Non-Enclosed, 4-Port, RS232 C Series Serial Interface Module
780922-01
Serial Interface
The sbRIO‑9870 adds RS232 serial ports to CompactRIO systems. The serial ports are accessed directly from the FPGA to offer you flexibility in communicating with serial devices. The module has individual buffers on every port that save FPGA space and simplify programming. The sbRIO‑9870 supports standard start bit, stop bit, and handshaking settings. It uses an external power to provide maximum compatibility and reliability under all serial port conditions. Non-enclosed modules are designed for OEM applications.
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sbRIO-9871, Non-Enclosed, 4-Port, RS485/RS422 C Series Serial Instrument Control Module
780879-01
Interface Module
The sbRIO‑9871 adds RS485/RS422 serial ports to CompactRIO systems. The serial ports are accessed directly from the FPGA to offer you flexibility in communicating with serial devices. The module has individual buffers on every port that save FPGA space and simplify programming. The sbRIO‑9870 supports standard start bit, stop bit, and handshaking settings. It uses an external power to provide maximum compatibility and reliability under all serial port conditions. Non-enclosed modules are designed for OEM applications.
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Interface Card
XMC-WMUX
Interface Card
Alta Data Technologies’ XMC-WMUX interface module (PCI Express Mezzanine Card for Carriers and Single Board Computers or Carriers) is a single or dual-channel (A-B Redundant = 4 Busses per Channel/Wings) WMUX card supported by the latest software technologies.
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High Density Interface Card
PMC-A429HD
Interface Card
Alta Data Technologies’ PMC-A429HD interface card offers an unparalled 16, 32 or 48 channels of ARINC-429 on a single-width, front panel PMC module. The PMC card can be used in almost any PCI/PCIe based backplane system, and can encode or decode almost any ARINC-429 physical layer signal. The card can also support several 717 channels.
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Interface
RCEI-830A-TB
Interface
Designed for embedded, laboratory and simulator applications, the RCEI-830A-TB supports maximum data throughput on all channels while providing onboard message scheduling, label filtering, multiple buffering options, receive message time-tagging and error detection, and IRIG-B receiver (AM or DC/TTL) and generator (DC/TTL).
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PCIe to PXIe Remote Control Interface Kit with Daisy-chain Facility
43-921-001-KIT
Interface
The 43-921 PCI Express-to-PXI Express expansion kit provides control of PXI Express modules installed in a PXI Express chassis using high bandwidth PCI Express technology. The extension kit can provide up to 4GB/s using PCIe Gen 2 x8 signalling. The 43-921 PCI Express-to-PXI Express expansion kit provides additional PXI instruments slots to the host computer by implementing a PCI Express-based control of PXI modules.
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Interface
RCEI-830A
Interface
Designed for embedded, laboratory and simulator applications, the RCEI-830A supports maximum data throughput on all channels while providing onboard message scheduling, label filtering, multiple buffering options, receive message time-tagging and error detection, and IRIG-B receiver (AM or DC/TTL) and generator (DC/TTL).
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PXI-8531, 1-Port PXI CANopen Interface Module
781061-01
CAN Interface
1-Port PXI CANopen Interface Module—The PXI‑8531 is a high-speed CANopen interface for developing applications with the NI‑Industrial Communications for CANopen driver. CANopen is the application layer that sits on top of the CAN physical layer often used for industrial automation applications. It was designed for motion-oriented machine control networks, such as handling systems, but now it is used in a variety of products and applications, including medical equipment, off-road vehicles, maritime electronics, public transportation, and building automation. The PXI‑8531 can transmit/receive process data objects (PDOs) and service data objects (SDOs) according to CiA DS301. It also features a batch SDO editor with electronic data sheet (EDS) file integration and layer setting services (LSS) support for slave node configuration.
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8-Ports Gigabit Ethernet RCV Interface (R)
YAV90058
Ethernet Interface
8x RJ45 LAN connectors to VPC RCV 192 pins module.
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Interface Module for Multimode, Multiprotocol Excalibur 8000 Family of Carrier Boards, a Complete Solution for Developing & Testing 1553 Interfaces
M8K1553Px(S)
Interface Module
The M8K1553Px(S) interface module for the multimode, multiprotocol, Excalibur 8000 family of carrier boards provide a complete solution for developing and testing 1553 interfaces and performing system simulation of the MIL-STD-1553 bus. The module handles all standard variations of the MIL-STD-1553 protocol.Each M8K1553Px multi function module contains 64K bytes of dual-port RAM for Data blocks, Control registers, and Look-up Tables. All Data blocks and Control registers are memory mapped, and may be accessed in real time. Each of the independent dual redundant M8K1553Px modules may be programmed to operate in one of three modes of operation: Remote Terminal, Bus Controller/Concurrent-RT, and Bus Monitor. In addition, modules 1 and 3 can be programmed to operate as Concurrent monitors, to modules 0 and 2 respectively.Each M8K1553PxS single function module operates either as a Bus Controller, Remote Terminal, or Bus Monitor.NOTE: the M8K1553PxS module is NOT compatible to the M4K1553MCH module.The M8K1553Px(S) comes complete with Windows software, a C-driver software library including source code and may be used with Exalt, Excalibur’s Analysis and Laboratory Tools, a Windows monitoring application.
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CAN/LIN Interfaces - 2 Channel PCIe
OTP2 module no053
LIN Interface
Expand your test system with the high-speed interface of the OTP2 module no053. The extension of the module can create new possibilities for your test system.
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Interface
RAR-XMC
Interface
Designed for embedded, laboratory and simulator applications, the RAR-XMC supports maximum data throughput on all channels while providing onboard message scheduling, label filtering, multiple buffering options, receive message time-tagging and error detection, and IRIG-B receiver (AM or DC/TTL) and generator (DC/TTL).
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cRIO-PB-MS, Master/Slave, C Series PROFIBUS Interface Module
781352-01
Interface Module
Master/Slave, C Series PROFIBUS Interface Module - The cRIO-PB-MS connects NI programmable automation controllers (PACs) to PROFIBUS industrial networks as powerful masters or slaves. The interface includes the NI‑PROFIBUS for CompactRIO instrument driver for human machine … interface (HMI) and SCADA applications, as well as a graphical networking Configurator software. You can perform PROFIBUS device automated test using these interfaces. The cRIO-PB-MS is compatible with only CompactRIO systems.
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PXIe-1487, 8 Input, 8 Output, or 4 Input/4 Output PXI FlexRIO GMSL™ Interface Module
787456-01
Interface
The PXIe-1487 combines the Maxim Integrated Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link™ (GMSL™) interface with the Xilinx FPGA for high-throughput vision and imaging applications. This module provides a … high-speed digital interface for using and testing modern advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous drive (AD) camera sensors and electronic control units (ECUs). Additionally, the PXIe-1487 makes use of a combination of GMSL™ serializers and deserializers with a Xilinx FPGA to provide a high-throughput and customizable GMSL™ interface on PXI. The included FlexRIO driver, with LabVIEW FPGA examples, provides access and control for power-over-coax, I²C back-channel communication, and general-purpose input/output (GPIO) communication on the GMSL™ channels. The PXIe-1487 is ideal for applications such as in-vehicle data logging, lab-based playback, or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL). GMSL is a trademark of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
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IEEE 488 PXI GPIB Instrument Control Module
778039-01
Serial Interface
The PXI‑GPIB is an IEEE 488 controller module for PXI systems. You can use this module to integrate non-PXI instruments into your PXI system using GPIB. The PXI‑GPIB achieves maximum IEEE 488.2 transfer rates. This module … includes a license for the NI‑488.2 driver software, which provides maximum reliability for connecting to third-party instruments with GPIB.
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PCI-8513, 1‑Port, Software‑Selectable/FD CAN Interface Device
780684-01
CAN Interface
1‑Port, Software‑Selectable/FD CAN Interface Device—The PCI‑8513 is a controller area network (CAN) flexible data-rate (FD) interface for developing applications with the NI‑XNET driver. NI‑XNET software-selectable CAN interfaces offer the best flexibility for CAN development with onboard transceivers for high-speed/FD, low-speed/fault-tolerant, and single-wire CAN as well as any external transceiver. The PCI‑8513 excels in applications requiring real‑time, high‑speed manipulation of hundreds of CAN frames and signals such as hardware‑in‑the‑loop simulation, rapid control prototyping, automation control, and more. The NI‑XNET device‑driven DMA engine enables the onboard processor to move CAN frames and signals between the interface and the user program without CPU interrupts.
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High-Performance IEEE-488 GPIB Interface for USB
USB-3488A
Interface
ADLINK"s GPIB interface solutions are delivered with complete software support, including a driver API set that is fully binary compatible with NI-488.2* driver. All programs written based on the GPIB-32.DLL library can be executed with the USB-3488A without any modification. The VISA library is also supported to ensure compatibility with applications utilizing VISA. Regardless if you are using VC++, VB, Delphi, LabVIEW*, or any other T&M ADEs. The ADLINK USB-3488A provides "Plug and Play" compatibility with all your existing applications.
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PCMCIA/PCCARD & PCI ExpressCard 54mm Cards
PCCD-A429 and ECD54-A429
Interface Card
Alta Data Technologies’ PCCD-A429 & ECD54-A429 interface modules offer a variety of ARINC-419/429/575/573/717 channel configurations with software selectable RX/Tx channels, baud rates, bit encoding and word configurations (Start/Sync/Stop length, Parity, bits/word, MSB/LSB). Encode or decode almost any ARINC-429 physical layer signal.
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PCI-8512, 1‑Port, High‑Speed/FD CAN Interface Device
780683-01
CAN Interface
The PCI‑8512 is a high-speed controller area network (CAN) flexible data-rate (FD) interface for developing applications with the NI‑XNET driver. The PCI‑8512 excels in applications requiring real‑time, high‑speed manipulation of hundreds of CAN frames and signals such as hardware‑in‑the‑loop simulation, rapid control prototyping, bus monitoring, automation control, and more. The NI‑XNET device-driven DMA engine enables the onboard processor to move CAN frames and signals between the interface and the user program without CPU interrupts, minimizing message latency and freeing host processor time for processing complex models and applications.
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PXIe-8245, 4-Port, 10/100/1000BASE-T PXI Ethernet Interface Module
787313-01
Ethernet Interface
The PXIe-8245 supports Ethernet-based communication between PXI hardware and external instruments and devices. This PXI Ethernet Interface Module includes four RJ45 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet interface ports in a single-slot PXI Express module.
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PXI-8360, MXI-Express Interface, PXI Remote Control Module
779501-01
Interface
MXI-Express Interface, PXI Remote Control Module—The PXI‑8360 allows you to control PXI and CompactPCI systems from your PC using a fully transparent MXI‑Express link. It is installed in a PXI chassis and uses a PCI Express‑to‑PCI bridge to interface with an installed PCI‑8360 through a copper, x1 MXI‑Express cable.
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1553 EBR to Ethernet Converter
ENET-1553-EBR
Ethernet Interface
ENET-1553-EBR-1D™ is an innovative product that provides “remoting” of 1553 AS5652 EBR operations on 10/100/1000 Ethernet IP/UDP local area networks (LAN). ENET-1553-EBR is a small, low-power, rugged device that provides connectivity for up to eight AS5652 RT devices, single BC or composite monitor.
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Compact-RIO Optical Interface Module
cRIO OPIF 20MBit/s
Interface
Fibre optical interface module for Compact-RIO with the following features:Fibre connection: SC connectorWavelength 820nmData rate: 020MBit/s2 Transmitters2 ReceiversExample SW in LabVIEWField of application of this module:Data communication via fibreOptical isolated data acquisition
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PXI Express Interface
EMX-2500
Interface
The EMX-2500 is the industry’s first gigabit Ethernet LXI based PXI Express interface. This combines Ethernet's widespread usage and robust architecture with instrumentation-specific functionality, such as wired trigger bus and IEEE-1588-2008 synchronization, and extends it for use in PXI Express mainframes, making it an ideal solution for data acquisition applications.
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PCI-8232, IEEE 488 GPIB Instrument Control Device for Windows
778742-01
Interface
The PCI-8232 is a plug‑and‑play IEEE 488 interface for PCs and workstations with PCI expansion slots. The PCI-8232 can sustain data transfer rates up to 7.8 MB/s using HS488 and is IEEE 488.2 compatible. The PCI-8232 includes a license … for the NI-488.2 driver software, which provides high performance and maximum reliability for connecting to third-party instruments using GPIB.
