Agilent Power Supply E3645A IVI Driver Communication Error

[shane5ab]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to communicate to Agilent Power Supply using IVI Drivers. I am attaching MAX Report, for all the modules installed on the system.

When I am running intialization VI for Agilent power supply,, using the simulate with "Specific Driver", no error comes up. But when I select "Don't Simulate",  I am getting this error :

IviDCPwr Initialize With Options.vi<ERR>
Primary Error: (Hex 0xBFFA0011) Function or method not supported.
Elaboration: FunctionId: 3,  FunctionName: InitWithOptions

Communicating with the instrument using Instrument Driver is working fine, but using IVI Drivers is not.

I have already tried all the steps suggested in this Topic .

Any promt help will be highly appreciated.

Kind Regards.

Shane5ab

[shane5ab]

Sorry I forgot to attach the MAX Report,

Here it the description of softwares installed related to this issue.

• IVI Compliance Package 3.3
• LabVIEW 8.6
• NI-VISA 4.4
  • NiVisaServer.exe
  • NIvisaic.exe
• NI-VISA Runtime 4.4
• IVI Drivers
  • Advanced
    • Instrument Driver Software Modules
      • AgilentE36xx
      • sampleSwitch
    • Simulation Driver Software Modules
      • nisDCPwr
      • nisDmm
      • nisFgen
      • nisScope
      • nisSwtch
    • Simulation Driver Sessions
      • nisDCPwr
      • nisDmm
      • nisFgen
      • nisScope
      • nisSwtch
  • Driver Sessions
    • Agilent PSU
    • Simulated8x8Matrix
  • Logical Names
    • Power_Supply
    • SampleMatrix1
    • SampleMatrix2

[NathanT]

Hello Shane,

         I highly recommend that you use the IVI-C driver for your instrument that is available on IDNet.  It will work better with the IVI-C class driver wrapper VIs that ICP installed for LabVIEW 8.6.  If you have already tried all of the steps in the other thread that you linked, you would have uninstalled the IVI-COM Instrument Driver and installed the IVI-C Instrument Driver.  When the IVI-C Instrument Driver is installed, the driver session and software module are both named: hpe364xa, which should not be changed.

Please let us know how it goes with the IVI-C Instrument Driver,

Cheers,

NathanT

[shane5ab]

Hi Nathan,

You are great. It just worked in the first instance. I spent a whole day yesterday, and with your help, using the IVI-C drivers, it just worked, with no issues.

Thank You once again.

Kind Regards.

Tajinder Singh

[NathanT · Accepted solution]

Hello Tajinder,

        I am glad that installing the IVI-C Instrument Specific Driver took care of things.  The differences between IVI-C and IVI-COM can be confusing at first.  I hope that the rest of your application development goes smoothly.

Cheers,

NathanT