07-01-2009 06:08 AM
The company have purchased a NI USB-5132 oscilloscope. I was hoping it was going to be UTMC compatible as I have previously programed a Tektronix oscilloscope using VISA with the INSTR interface.
However the NI USB-5132 does not get recognised as a VISA Instr device.
I built a Visa .inf file for it and it does now get recognised as a VISA RAW device.
However now I need to program it as a RAW device for setup and measurement.
My questions are two fold. Where is the command set for a NI USB-5132 device suitable for programming
it as a VISA raw device ( document / pdf file ). Note I can get a UsbRaw session for the device but I am interested particularly in the equivalent of VISA Write and Read in Raw mode for this device. Looking at explanations of RAW it seems that I need to know also the protocol for the device. In preference I would like to use the simplest protocol such as a Simple Read and Write as for VISA Instr.
Secondly are there any examples of programming the device in VISA RAW ?
Thanks for any assistance.
07-01-2009 09:41 AM
The NI USB-5132/5133 devices do not support the interfaces that you mention. National Instruments does not publish the command set/protocols necessary to configure the device using VISA.
The device is configurable using the NI-SCOPE driver provided with your hardware. You can also download the most recent version here:
The driver comes with dozens of examples using the NI-SCOPE API in LabVIEW and C.
07-01-2009 11:35 PM