Integration of PXI and VXI digitizers into the Hanbit data acquisition system based on MDSplus

VXI and PXI digitizers are integrated into MDSplus by developing TDI drivers based on VXIplug&play drivers and NI-DAQmx library. National Instruments (NI)’ MAX (Measurement & Automation eXplorer) is used to setup and control the PXI digitizers. MDSplus indirectly controls the digitizers through MAX by matching the task names of the latter with the node names of the former. In this way, most of the NIʹs PXI digitizers can be controlled only with a minimum effort to develop several TDI drivers that connect MDSplus to MAX.