NI Device Drivers 2018 v8.5

National Instruments Device Drivers 2018 version 18.5 includes the most popular drivers to improve interoperability between NI software hardware. Use this suite to easily have your software recognize important hardware components.

NI Device Drivers May 2018 contains the following drivers:

Data Acquisition
- NI-DAQmx
Instrument Control
- NI-488.2
- NI-VISA
- NI-Serial
- IVI Compliance Package
Modular Instruments
- NI-Switch
- NI-DMM
- NI-Scope
- NI-FGEN
- NI-DCPower
- NI-HSDIO
Timing & Synchronization
- NI-Sync
- NI-TimeSync
Reconfigurable I/O
- NI CompactRIO
- NI R Series
- NI FlexRIO
Motion and Vision
- NI-Motion
- NI-IMAQ
- NI-IMAQdx
- NI-IMAQ I/O
NI Industrial Controller
Real-Time and Embedded
- NI-488.2
- NI-Serial
Communication Buses and Protocols
- NI-XNET
NI System Configuration

About NI Device Drivers 2018 version 18.5. Driver versions are now aligned with the versions of major NI application software products. This alignment gives you information about the year the driver was released and the most recent software version with which the driver was designed to work. Driver versions now start with a two-digit year indicator. For example, NI-DAQmx 14.0.0 is the version released with LabVIEW 2014. The last version released under the old numbering scheme is NI-DAQmx 9.9. The first version released under the new numbering scheme is NI-DAQmx 14.0.0.

About NI LabView. LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a graphical programming language that uses icons instead of lines of text to create applications. In contrast to text-based programming languages that use instructions to determine the order of program execution, LabVIEW uses dataflow programming. In data flow programming, the flow of data through the nodes on the block diagram determines the execution order of the VIs and functions. VIs, or virtual instruments, are LabVIEW programs that imitate physical instruments.

In LabVIEW, you build a user interface by using a set of tools and objects. The user interface is known as the front panel. After you build the front panel, you add code using graphical representations of functions to control the front panel objects. You add this graphical code, also known as G code or block diagram code, to the block diagram. The block diagram somewhat resembles a flowchart. The block diagram, front panel, and graphical representations of code compose a VI.