driver search

[Sander Mathews]

Hey all, I am working in the lab over here at Sycamore Networks for a list
of drivers that support GP-IB and run on LabView, not LabView CVI or
VEE, LabView only. I have been searching the NI webpage but am unable
to find any mention from the following list.
8163a Lightwave Multimeter
86142a Optical Spectrum Analyzer
8164a Lightwave Measurement System
81635a Power Sensor
8156a Optical Attenuator
83480 Digital Communication Analyzer
70004a Display
70340a Signal Generator
70843b Error Performance Analyzer
86100a Wide Bandwidth Oscilloscope
8753ES S- Parameter Network Analyzer
SB Series Fiber Optic Switch
AQ6317 Optical Spectrum Analyzer
1711 DC Power Supply
1746 DC Power Supply
TSL -210 Tunable Semi-Conductor Laser
LC564 1GHz Oscillosco
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If you have any information on where I can find any drivers for any of the

proceeding equipment I would appriciate it. Please respond directly to the
email address: sander.mathews@sycamorenet.com

[Dennis_Knutson]

What you might also try is finding drivers for similar models from the same
manufacturer. You don't mention manufacturers in your posting but assuming
that the LC564 is from LeCroy, you could look at the LC574 driver that National
has. Also, don't exclude CVI drivers. These and other "Plug and Play" drivers
can be used in LabVIEW. You won't be able to edit the source code unless
you have a CVI license but the driver might provide all of the functions
you need. Try going to the manufacturers for drivers. Except for Agilent,
most are pretty good about making LabVIEW drivers available for their instruments.
I don't think Agilent will ever have a policy of writing LabVIEW drivers
(not as long as they still try to sell VEE) so you'll either have to write
your own, use
the Plug and Play driver, or submit a request to National for
them to write one.

"Sander Mathews" wrote:
>>Hey all, I am working in the lab over here at Sycamore Networks for a list>of
drivers that support GP-IB and run on LabView, not LabView CVI or >VEE, LabView
only. I have been searching the NI webpage but am unable>to find any mention
from the following list. >8163a Lightwave Multimeter >86142a Optical Spectrum
Analyzer>8164a Lightwave Measurement System >81635a Power Sensor >8156a Optical
Attenuator>83480 Digital Communication Analyzer>70004a Display>70340a Signal
Generator>70843b Error Performance Analyzer>86100a Wide Bandwidth Oscilloscope
>8753ES S- Parameter Network Analyzer>SB Series Fiber Optic Switch>AQ6317
Optical Spectrum Analyzer>1711 DC Power Supply>1746 DC Power Supply>TSL -210
Tunable Semi-Conductor Laser >LC564 1GHz Oscilloscope>>If you have any information
on where I can find any drivers for any of the>>proceeding equipment I would

appriciate it. Please respond directly to the>email address: sander.mathews@sycamorenet.com>

[ks2]

I did find an IVI driver, LabWindows/CVI and LabVIEW, for the Lecroy Scope
on the NI site: http://zone.ni.com/idnet97.nsf/websearch/CF1A42E8C7F3D7A0862568AB005FBD58?OpenDocument

On the others, the plug and play drivers may be the way to go. There were
a few LabWindows/CVI drivers for some of the instruments you mentioned and
I believe there's a way to convert the drivers for use in LabVIEW where calls
are made through a DLL ... that's the case with the IVI driver above.

If you can get dlls with the drivers not expicitly written for LabVIEW then
there should be no reason for you not be able to call those functions from
within LabVIEW. Here's a knowledgebase entry on NIs site, it doesn't go into
too much detail but I think it seems most of the info is within the LabVIEW
h
elp files: http://zone.ni.com/idnet97.nsf/websearch/CF1A42E8C7F3D7A0862568AB005FBD58?OpenDocument

Good luck, seems like you have a pretty large group of instruments to work
with.
Kamran