Does the instrument driver for Agilent 54845A work on 54835A?

[zxrlwj]

I want to acquire real-time data from the Agilent oscilloscope 54835A by labview. However I didn't find any instrument driver available for this equipment on NI website. Can I use the driver for Agilent 54845A instead? Does it work on 54835A scope?

I've contact Agilent and it is the answer: "The 54835A has identical HW to the 54845A except for the slight BW reduction. I would expect the 54845A lab view drivers to work on a 54835A scope. The only reason they would not work is if lab view does any instrument ID first. "

Is it possible? Thanks!

[Dennis_Knutson]

It seems you got your answer from Agilent. You can modify the initialize routine to check for the response from the 54835. I would also recomend you make a copy of the driver and rename everything that has 54845 in the VI name to 54835. Presumably, one of the functions in the driver sets a higher bandwidth so that is another function you might want to modify.

[zxrlwj]

I'll try it. Thanks a lot!