Channel Name Generation

NI-DAQmx Key Concepts

Channel Name Generation

NI-DAQmx assigns names to local virtual channels that you create programmatically with the NI-DAQmx API when you do not provide a name for each local virtual channel.

Physical Channel NamesName To AssignGenerated Local Virtual Channel Names
Dev1/ai0:1Dev1/ai0, Dev1/ai1
Dev1/ai0:7"foo"foo0, foo1, ..., foo7
Dev1/ai0:7"a0:3, b"a0, a1, a2, a3, b0, b1, b2, b3