NI PXI 4351 read temperature

Hi,
I'm trying to read temperature from TBX-68T connected to NI PXI-4351.
I see PXI-4351 in my hardware explorer, it show me right data in test panel.
But, I can't found any tools for reading temperature in LabView!
I installed drivers for NI PXI 4351
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/285/lang/en
but still noresults. Driver didn't contain any examples for reading.
I use LabView 10 and I have NI DAQ Traditional 7.4.4
so, I confused. How read temperature?

JaredRo wrote:
Hi kmcdevitt,
The SC Express product family was specifically designed to take advantage of the PXIe architecture and therefore the timing circuitry on the PXIe-4353 is not designed to be compatible with the PXI platform.  There are no plans to design any of the SC Express products in the PXI form factor.
Jared,
Please explain what it is that makes the PXIe-4353 so special that there can not be a PXI-4353.
This 32-Channel, 24-Bit, Thermocouple Input Module does 90 S/s/ch sample rate in high-speed mode or 1 S/s/ch sample rate in high-resolution mode.  Surely you are not claming the the PXI platform's architecture and timing circuitry can not hadle the troughput generated by the 32 channels of 24bit data at 90Hz.
Jared, it is not a pleasent fealing to be prommised that the new signal conditioning cards are going to be made for your soon to be purchased PXI-1045 chassises, and later find out from an Applications Engineer Jared that it has been in the plans to never make PXI versions of signal conditioning cards.  How would you feel if you purchased about 30 PXI-1045 18 slot chassises with PXI Embedded RT controllers with the promiss that if you bought the controllers and chassises that NI would continue to develope new Signal Conditioning and Other PXI Cards for your chassises.  Just buy them, and the new PXI cards will come.  How would you feel when you were told to be patient and just wait till next years NI week.  How patient would you be after the second year of being told to be patient until the next year's NI week?  How patient would you be after the third year of being told to be patient until the next year's NI week?  I have been recently asked to be patient again.  NI Week 2012, there may be something.  And now you tell me that there will never be anything.
I just don't buy it that there is something about the PXIe architecture and therefore the timing circuitry that is required for 90 Hz data.
Kevin.

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