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Instrument Driver Development Resources for NI-VISA Drivers

LabVIEW Add-on Dev Center » Instrument Driver Development Resources for NI-VISA Drivers

 

After reviewing several instrument drivers for our the NI Tools Network, we have found the following documents were valuable in helping partners understand developing instrument drivers with NI-VISA and LabVIEW.  We'll continue to add other documents as we discover them, but here are a few to help you get started:

 

VISA Driver Development

Using the VISA Driver Development Wizard and NI-VISA to Develop a PXI/PCI Driver in Windows - The device driver created with the VISA Driver Development Wizard is a .inf and allows you to utilize the NI-VISA LabVIEW or C APIs to develop an instrument driver with register level programming.  This device driver is also supported under LabVIEW Real-Time systems through NI-VISA.

 

Instrument Driver Architectures

Developing LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Drivers

 

VISA Instrument Driver Development

Considerations in Implementing Real-Time Drivers

Developing a LabVIEW Real-Time Driver for a PXI, cPCI or PCI Device

 

Multicore in LabVIEW

Multicore Programming Fundamentals