How I can interface andor EMCCD camera (ultra ixon 897) with labview ?

[siddhantsingh]

I try to do it with the help of Vision assistant but the camera isn't showing up in the NI-MAX(under devices and interfaces). I also installed VISA but my device isn't showing in NI-MAX. I don't know what is wrong.

ps: I am using a USB 2.0 to connect my EMCCD camera to my pc.

[KK_India]

I have the same question. may you share if you have the answer now

[rolfk]

The datasheet for the camera states:

The iXon Ultra series requires one of the following software options:

- Solis Imaging: A 32-bit and fully 64-bit enabled application for Windows (8, 8.1 and 10) offering rich functionality for
data acquisition and processing. AndorBasic provides macro language control of data acquisition, processing, display
and export.

- Andor SDK: A software development kit that allows you to control the Andor range of cameras from your own
application. Available as 32 and 64-bit libraries for Windows (8, 8.1 and 10), compatible with C/C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET,
LabVIEW and Matlab. Linux SDK compatible with C/C++.

- Andor iQ A comprehensive multi-dimensional imaging software package. Offers tight synchronization of EMCCD with a
comprehensive range of microscopy hardware, along with comprehensive rendering and analysis functionality. Modular
architecture for best price/performance package on the market.

- Third party software compatibility, drivers are available for a variety of third party imaging packages.

- For SRRF-Stream+ the iXon must be operated either through MicroManager (Open Imaging) open source microscopy
software platform, or through the Andor SDK, if SRRF-Stream functionality is to be accessed.

This basically means that you would have to use the Andor SDK and create your own LabVIEW VI library to access the SDK functions. This requires you to know about DLL, datatypes, memory management and similar things as required to program in C/C++ using the LabVIEW Call Library Node.

The Andor camera is NOT a standard USB image capture device but uses its own proprietary interface that can only be accessed through the Andor SDK or one of their applications (that uses under the hood the Andor SDK libraries too).

Their SDK download seems to contain some LabVIEW examples:

https://andor.oxinst.com/downloads/view/windows-driver-and-sdk-installer

However, F-Secure claims the installer executable contains adware AdGazelle.Gen7. While that could be a false alarm, that is as far as I'm willing to go with this without more urgent needs on my side to get this software installed.