The Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA) is a standard for configuring, programming, and troubleshooting instrumentation systems comprising GPIB, VXI, PXI, serial (RS232/485), Ethernet/LXI, USB, and/or IEEE 1394 interfaces. New features include LXI autodiscovery with improved LXI device information in Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), VISA Conflict Manager settings in MAX, added support for Mandriva Linux 2009, support for openSUSE 11.0, and VISA multivendor plug-in architecture for the 64-bit edition of Windows Vista.
NI-VISA is the National Instruments implementation of the VISA I/O standard. It provides the programming interface between hardware and application development environments such as NI LabVIEW, LabWindows™/CVI, and Measurement Studio for Microsoft Visual Studio.
NI-VISA development licenses are included with National Instruments products such as development environments and GPIB hardware. NI-VISA run-time deployment licenses are included on deployed systems that feature NI hardware, NI development environments, and applications written using NI development environments.
Before purchasing additional development or deployment licenses, review all of the VISA licensing information to verify that one is not already included with your other NI products.
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