drivers for HP 4262a

[fgirard]

I owe an old L-C-R meter HP 4262a which is not manufactured anymore (but still working). I would like to use the GPIB interface available at the rear panel. Unfortunately there are no Labview drivers developped so far.

Did somebody has done something for Labview. If necessary, I will try to built them but I don't know where to start. Could somebody help me ??

Tx in advance.

FG

[AaronK]

Hi,

If no one else has a driver for you, and you would like to try developing your own instrument driver, we have documentation, model instrument drivers, and driver templates to help at :
http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/development.htm

We also have a syndicate of third party vendors that specialize in National Instruments' products and services. Some of the vendors specialize in driver development. I would suggest contacting one of the Alliance members at:
http://www.ni.com/alliance

An instrument driver is a collection of functions that implement the commands necessary to perform the instrument�s operations. In short, someone read the instrument user manual and implemented some of the functionality in a program for the end user. Instrument drive
rs are not necessary to use your instrument.

There are example VI's in LV on Instrument Connectivity. If you go to the Help menu >> Examples.. >> I/O, you will see a couple and Examples.. >> Fundamentals for File and String manipulation. I would suggest tweaking them to suit your application. Also the specific command that your instrument responds to can be found from it's manual.

Some useful resources for your application are
ni.com > NI Developer Zone > Development Library > Instrument Connectivity
http://search.ni.com/?col=alldocs&layout=TechResources&ql=a , to search examples and knowledge bases

Hope this helps!

Aaron K.
Application Engineer
National Instruments

[fgirard]

Tx Aaron, i'm going to look to those pages...


Franck Girard