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Searching for HP 8175A instrument driver

I want to use Labview 7.0 to control the HP 8175A digital signal generator through the HPIB interface. Does anyone have an instrument driver that will work with this device? Thanks.
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Hi,
Unfortunately I was unable to find a driver for this instrument at http://ni.com/idnet or on the Agilent site. This leaves you with one of a couple options. It may be possible to modify an existing driver to work with this instrument. Otherwise, http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/other.htm states a few options to obtaining a driver. Drivers are developed based on demand and popularity so the more requests, the greater the possibility that one will be developed. Also, NI only writes drivers for standalone instruments in the eight IVI classes(DMMs, Scopes, Function Generators, Switches, Power Supplies, Power Meters, RF Signal Generators, and Spectral analyzers) that communicate via GPIB, Serial, or TCP/IP. It would also be beneficial to notify the instrument
manufacturer, they often have drivers for multiple programming languages.

If you cannot find the drivers at all, you can always program without them. If you have the instrument's programming manual, this should be fairly simple. In fact, you could write your own drivers if you wanted.

Hope this helps.

A.S.
Anu Saha
Academic Product Marketing Engineer
National Instruments
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