NI-Scope examples

INTRODUCTION

National Instruments produce a wide range of 8-,12-,14,16-,24-bit Oscilloscopes/Digitizers cards in PCI, PCIe, PXI and PXIe form factor with sample rate up to 12.5Gs/s. [1]

This cards are supported by NI-Scope driver. Only Linux 32-bit and Windows 32/64 bit are supported.

NI Scope for Linux

Hardware are supported by Ni-Scope 3.1 for Linux (download). This driver works only on Linux distributions with kernel 2.6.x RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Scientific Linux 5.x, 6.x and some old for example Mandrake 10.1. Read readme file to find list of supported hardware.

To install NI-Scope 3.1 properly under this distribution make this trick

  Install NI-DAQmx 8.0.2 after NI-Scope.

To check device presents in your system type nilsdev in terminal. Output should be like this

  NI PXI-5122: "Dev2" 
  NI PXI-5122: "Dev1"

Two PXI-5122 cards are present in the system with aliases Dev1 and Dev2.

NI-Scope for Linux Windows OSes are supported by latest NI-Scope 14.1 driver (download)