Max; Fgen Soft Front Panel; Ni-Fgen - NI PXI-5421 Manual

MAX

To initiate self-calibration from MAX, complete the following steps:
1. Launch MAX.
2. Select My System»Devices and Interfaces»PXI System from the tree control.
3. Select the device that you want to calibrate.
4. Initiate self-calibration in one of the following ways:
• Click Self-Calibrate in the upper right corner.
• Right-click the device name and select Self-Calibrate from the drop-down menu.

FGEN Soft Front Panel

To initiate self-calibration from the FGEN Soft Front Panel (SFP), complete the following steps:
1. Select the device that you want to calibrate using the Device Configuration dialog box
(Edit»Device Configuration).
2. Open the Calibration dialog box (Utility»Calibration).
3. Click Perform self-calibration.

NI-FGEN

To self-calibrate the NI 5421/5441 programmatically using NI-FGEN, complete the following
steps:
1. Call
niFgen_init
parameters:
• resourceName: The name of the device that you want to calibrate. You can find this
name under Devices and Interfaces in MAX.
• IDQuery:
• resetDevice:
• vi: A pointer to a ViSession. The variable passed by reference through this parameter
receives the value that identifies the session created by this function. This value acts
as the session handle and is passed as the first parameter to all subsequent NI-FGEN
functions.
2. Call
niFgen_SelfCal
• vi: The session handle returned from
3. Call
niFgen_close
parameter:
• vi: The session handle returned from
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(niFgen Initialize VI) to open an NI-FGEN session using the following
VI_TRUE
VI_TRUE
(niFgen Self Cal VI) using the following parameter:
(niFgen Close VI) to close the NI-FGEN session using the following
niFgen_init
niFgen_init