Serial communication

[fabiovigliotti]

I am a new user a Labview 6.1and I am trying to learn how to get information out of the serial port. I am check on ni.com for more information, but I am still really confused. I don't know if someone could help me just to get started. Thanks

[Jason Stallard]

The example:

(drive):\National Instruments\LabVIEW 6.1\examples\instr\smplserl.llb\Serial Communication.vi

shows the basics using the VISA vi's. You'll want to use these unless you're working with field-point controllers, for those you'll have to use the field-point specific vi's since VISA isn't supported on field-point.

Hope this helps!