Automation for Agilent 8960 E5515C

[dangzhe]

Hi, I am using Labview to do automation control for Agilent 8960 E5515C. I download the instrument driver from the NI.com which is "Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies E5515" After unzipping and placing it into the Labview, everytime I tried to open the driver interface, it shows like the picture in the attachment. I cannot drag any symbol to the block screen. Also when I tried to open a .vi file, it will display a message called "find the shared library named"age1964_32.dll". I then went to the agilent.com, they do have some plug and play drivers for 5515c, but those drivers are named as 1961 or 1962. I cannot find the driver of 1964. And the latest one is called age1852. I installed this one. but still, it shows the "age1964_32.dll" is missing.

Just wonder if anyone knows how to solve this problem.

Thanks a lot.

-George

[Raj_V]

Hi George,

I installed the same instrument driver you mentioned from here. I was able to unzip the contents of the instrument driver, place it in the instr.lib folder in <National Instruments>/LabVIEW 2009/instr.lib. I then opened up LabVIEW 2009 and was able to see all the driver VIs and was able to drag and drop them appropriately into the LabVIEW block diagram. Are you installing the files in the same folder as me?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Raj,

Well, I repeated those exact same steps with that driver from that location and there is no dll included in the zip and dropping any function on the block diagram prompts a search for the dll. The driver page says you need a third-party download and that would appear to be a dll that Agilent created. The LabVIEW functions are wrappers with a Call Library Function Node. If you have a copy of age1964_32.dll, it might be appropriate to copy it to the zip files so that someone does not have to search all over Agilent's web site.

[dangzhe]

Hey, Raj,

Thanks for your reply. I think it's due to the version of my Labview, I am using 8.2 version, and actually yesterday I tried other two instrument drivers with the name of Agilent E1963 and Agilent E1968. These two together can do what the E5515C does. What you need to do is just use a Labview Interface Generator to convert the .fp file to .dll and .mnu files.

What Dennis says may also be a reason for the age1964 one. But I think the 1963 and 1968 together can realize the function of 1964.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[Raj_V]

Hi dangzhe,

Have you tried installing the drivers found at the location below?

http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/techSupport.jspx?pid=1000004337%3Aepsg%3Apro&pageMode=DS&t=80126...

As found on the NI drivers page, this particular instrument driver uses the E1964 Agilent driver and as such, you would need to find that driver and install it for this to work correctly. This not actively supported by NI and is not a certified driver.