Instruments LXI emulator

[geodo]

Hi guys

I want to know if there are any software that emulate an instrument LXI

The reason is to probe my control software if i can't get all instruments

Thankss

[RamonaL]

No, you cant simulate a instrument of LXI.

Greetings, RMathews

[F_G_]

I'm interested in this.  How comes there is no emulation capability?  Since every PC has LAN ports, is there not a way to write some software to make a PC show up as an LXI instrument?

I am interested in this because it might be useful to write LXI interfaces for custom hardware and equipment to have it show up on the test network.  Can anyone tell me if anyone is doing this, and if not, why?

Thanks!

[Dennis_Knutson]

There is no emulation required by the LXI consortium and not much reason for the individual instrument vendors to provide this for their instruments. Of course, there can be no generic emulator since every instrument is going to have a completely different command set.

A quick google turned up http://www.winsoft.com/. It looks like they have eumulators for some instruments. If your instrument is one of them, you might give that a try.

You might also want to read some of this post about VXI-11 emulation and what is required for the server and correct detection. However, I'm not sure if all LXI instruments are based on VXI-11.

[LambdaPS]

I may not understand your needs, but all LXI instruments are required to have IVI-COM drivers. Instances of IVI COM can be initilaized with "Simulate=True". You can run your application even with no instrument connected.

The limitiation is that for reading data from the instrument, the returned value is always some default value. This default value may be editied, but only between runs of the application.

[gagi1]

The IVI-C class drivers implement simulation features by using simulation drivers. Each simulation driver plugs in to the corresponding class driver and performs flexible output data simulation.

To learn more about simulation with IVI, please refer to the following documents:

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000x2PaCAI&l=en-US

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000x0dGCAQ&l=en-US