What is NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (NI MAX)

NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) provides access to your NI hardware. It is a free piece of software that cannot be downloaded by itself but is included, and automatically installed, with all NI drivers (NI-VISA, NI-DAQmx etc.) and NI System Configuration. For more information, please refer to Download NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX).

With MAX, you can:

• Configure your NI hardware and software
• Export/Import the System Configuration
• Create and edit channels, tasks, interfaces, scales, and virtual instruments (ex. Create Tasks for NI-DAQmx Devices in NI MAX)
• Create Simulated Devices (ex. Create Simulated NI-DAQmx Devices in NI MAX)
• Execute system diagnostics and run test panels (ex. Using Test Panels in Measurement & Automation Explorer for Devices Supported by NI-DAQmx)
• View devices/instruments connected to your system and software installed on your system:

Some Navigation Features:

• Detailed, Topic-Specific Help: Help » MAX Help
• Version Information of NI MAX: Help » Information
• Information of the System NI MAX Resides: Help » System Information. The data shown includes e.g. the version number of your operation system, the number of processors, and the available physical memory
• Questions about Specific Options: Click Show Help on the top, right-hand corner. Once clicked a sidebar will appear so whenever you however over options, it will give descriptions in the sidebar help so that you know what each configuration means.

Introduction to Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX)

You use MAX to perform the following actions with your National Instruments measurement and SCXI devices:

• Configure resources and other device-specific settings for measurement devices in your system
• Test the resources and the functionality of measurement devices in your system
• Add and remove a measurement or SCXI device

MAX informs other NI programs which products you have in your system and how they are configured. When you run an application using NI-DAQ, the software reads the configuration to determine which devices you have configured.

Note Special considerations exist for specific operating systems. Refer to Operating System Considerations for more information.

To check the system resources a DAQ device is using and to select attached accessories, expand Devices and Interfaces»Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) Devices in the configuration tree. Click your device to see information on the device resources. The information appears on the Attributes tab in the middle MAX panel. For more information, refer to Accessing DAQ Devices.

Note Press or select View»Refresh to refresh the screen if your device does not appear under Devices and Interfaces.

При подготовке материала использовались источники:
https://www.ni.com/en-za/support/documentation/supplemental/21/what-is-ni-measurement—automation-explorer—ni-max—.html
https://documentation.help/NI-DAQ-Measurement-Automation/MAX_DAQ_Intro_T.html