Change my board GPIB CEC 488 for one board GPIB of NI

[Mario_Ku]

Hi to all.

I have some questions.

I have a test equipment with one old board GPIB this is a CEC488 but I need to do other test equipment similar, the problem is that I do not have other board GPIB similar to first equipment. I am install a board GPIB of NI. the test program is development in visual basic 6.0.

Do you know if the board GPIB of NI is compatible with the Board CEC488??

Do you think that the test program work well with the board NI??

Both boards are compatibles???

If somebory can help me with these questions.

Thanks a lot.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Did you use VISA for communicating to the instruments? If so, then your program will need little or no changes.

[Mario_Ku]

Hi 

I am not using visa in the test program, I only see that is using some dlls, and in these the developer send diferent commands for comunicate with the instruments.

How can I to know if the test program is using functiones of visa??

Regards.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I take it then that you are not the developer? Could you provide the name of the dll and the functions that are being called? VISA uses calls such as ViWrite and ViRead.

[Mario_Ku]

Dennis

I am attached a file in where are the dll that the test program is using with the diferent calls that does to the functions.

please

let me know yours comments.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Those would appear to be calls to a CEC specific driver. You will have to rewrite the program to use a different GPIB controller.

[Mario_Ku]

Dennis

I have other question.

will need I downloading some specific driver of the instrument to the PC for that I can begin to work with the board of NI ??.

Regards. 

[Dennis_Knutson]

You will need a driver for the NI controller and you should have gotten that with the card. You will have a program called Measurement & Automation Explorer installed and you can use that to send/receive commands. If you want to use a driver for the instrument, you can search the Instrument Driver Network. Most of the drivers are written for LabVIEW but you can incorporate IVI drivers. It would still be quite a bit of rewriting.

[Mario_Ku]

Dennis

I have used the driver of the board, and the board has work well, I have made the changes in the test program for use this board of NI. and the test equipment is work well.

I apreciated so much your help.

Regards.