NI Digital Electronics Board DAC and ADC access from Multisim

Is it possible to use the ADC and DAC functionality of the NI Digital Electronics Board from a circuit designed in Multisim?
I would like to have my students be able to digitally sample an audio input, perform transformations on the data stream, and listen to the effect. Nothing particularly fancy.
Thanks,
-Bret Wood

Hello,
In order to use the ADC/DAC you need to define a protocol and this goes beyond the scope of the PLD schematic in Multisim.
LabVIEW can be used to accomplish this, there are some examples that you can use as reference, they can be found in the NI Example Finder.
Regards,
Fernando D.
National Instruments

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