About NI-Motion

NI-Motion is the driver software for National Instruments 73xx motion controllers and the NI SoftMotion Controller. You can use NI-Motion to create motion control applications using the included library of LabVIEW VIs and C/C++ functions.

National Instruments also offers the NI Motion Assistant and NI-Motion development tools for Visual Basic.

NI-Motion Architecture

The NI-Motion driver software architecture is based on the interaction between the NI motion controllers and a host computer. This interaction includes the hardware and software interface and the physical and functional architecture of the NI motion controllers. The following block diagram demonstrates the NI motion control hardware and software interaction.

Note  The NI Motion Controller block is not applicable to the NI SoftMotion Controller.