Intefacing in LABVIEW

[mohsin]

Dear all,

            I have recently joined this forum as I am a beginner in learning about LABVIEW.

I am working in an rganization and I have been assigned a task to interface any device like DMM or Oscilloscope etc with the LABVIEW and control the device using LABVIEW.

Is there any body who can help me in this regard to learn about INTERFACING WITH LABVIEW?As I do not even know that how should interfacing be performed and what are the requirments and steps for it.

I'll be obliged for help.

Thanks and regards,

mmr

[AdnanZ]

I would recommed the following three websites:

How Can I Learn LabVIEW? 
Getting Started with LabVIEW
Getting Started with NI-DAQmx

If you have any questions after that, be sure to ask here for help.

[mohsin]

Brother,I have gone through all the basic exercises of LABVIEW except that of DAQ.Because I have no DAQ hardware device to connect it to PC.Is there any posiible way of Interfacing a DMM or oscilloscope etc. with the computer directly?

My boss says that it is possible and he wants me to do that with the use of only availabale resources.

What do you say?

Thanks

[Sundar...]

Hello mohsin,

You could very well interface A DMM or Oscilloscope which have

any kind kind of interface such as IR/Serial/GPIB etc.

Most of the instruments today have some kind of interfaces to PC ,

serial communication port being most commonly used.

You could then easily read that data to LabVIEW through Serial port.

Sundar.

[Ben]

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mohsin wrote:

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My boss says that it is possible and he wants me to do that with the use of only availabale resources.

What do you say?

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Start by checking the documentaion for the hardware you will use. They should include info on how they should be connected. While doing this you want to find out what type of inteface they use, eg GPIB, PCI, Serial etc.

THe do a serach of this site using the model numbers of the widgets you have and locate the "Device Driver" and its associated examples. In most cases getting the example to run will be the "hump" in your project and you should be cruising afterward (until you find about the next change request).

Ben

[smercurio_fc]

You can find tons of pre-written drivers for various instruments in the Instrument Driver Network, as Ben alluded to.

[mohsin]

I have a NI 5105 PXI/PCI card and I want to interface it with lab view.How I can do it?

What are the sotware requirements for this purpose?

[smercurio_fc]

The 5105 is a digitizer, so you would use NI-Scope to program it. If you don't already have NI-Scope you can download it from here. You should also take a look at Getting Started with NI-Scope.

[Dennis_Knutson]

You also have the option of using the IVI Scope class driver. For that you would need theIVI Complance Package. When you use a class driver, you can swap out your pci/pxi digitizer with any other scope (i.e. GPIB/Ethernet/USB/etc) that has an IVI driver without making any changes to your program.