Using Tams 61622 GPIO card with Labview

[paul@ir]

Hi,

I am trying to use a TAMS 61622 GPIO card in Labview. The card has been used up to now with HTBasic with a SICL interface. I cannot get MAX to recognise the presence of the card even though the card appears in the "Device Manager" menu.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't know who TAMS is or what a GPIO board is but MAX is a utilility program from National Instruments and it will not work with boards from other vendors.

[paul@ir]

Thanks for replying.

Just to make things a little clearer. The TAMS (Test And Measurement Systems inc) 61622 GPIO is a PCI bus general purpose IO card and is very similar in operation and design to Agilent HP98622.  I have used MAX to interface to an INES GPIB card via the VISA interface but cannot do the same for the TAMS card. 

Thanks again..

[Dennis_Knutson]

That's a little different. Vendors of GPIB controllers can provide a VISA library that is used instead of something vendor specific such as SICL. You can then enable Tulip support in MAX so that a non-NI controller can be viewed but I don't think you can do any hardware configuration. VISA can be used with GPIB, serial, USB, VXI, PXI, and ethernet communication but does not, afaik, have any kind of definition for a GPIO. You can probably make calls to the SICL library with the Call Library Function Node. For help on this, check Help>Search the LabVIEW Bookshelf>Using External Code in LabVIEW.

[paul@ir]

I think that may be the answer. The vendor supplies a dll for the SICL commands so I will import that and try to access the functions that way rather than using VISA.

Thanks a lot, you've been most helpful.