IVI Architecture Overview

This section contains IVI product information and a general overview of the concepts of IVI instrument drivers and the IVI Engine. This section also contains a detailed discussion of the IVI attribute model, callbacks, state caching, and the responsibilities of high-level instrument driver functions. Refer to the Programming Guidelines for Instrument Drivers and Attribute Editor sections for information on the LabWindows/CVI wizards that help you create and modify IVI instrument drivers. The Programming Guidelines for Instrument Drivers section also contains detailed information on instrument driver source code. Refer to the LabWindows/CVI Help for descriptions of the functions in the IVI Engine API and for information about the IVI error reporting capabilities.