Announcing free firmware update - version 1.1 adds SPI and I2C protocol analysis

[PPerrault]

Thanks Brandon,

I'm going to play with it in Labview then.

Cheers,

-Paul

[robham]

So I'm downloading all three update files and the file names are identical...

[bstreiff]

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@robham wrote:

So I'm downloading all three update files and the file names are identical... 

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Yes, it is rather confusing. They'll be named less ambiguously for the next release.

If you want everything, you just need the "NI-VirtualBench Driver" installer (the 192MB one); it includes the VirtualBench Application and the VirtualBench run-time libraries.

[pendragedon]

Hello William,

How does it look like with new version which supports UART analysis? Thanks

Daniel

[ZachHindes]

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@JoeFriedchicken wrote:

VirtualBench 1.1 is now available as a free firmware update and is packed full of new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes. New additions include:

...

Device API changes

• Added C API.

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I would like to point out that a VirtualBench enthusiast created Python bindings for our C API!  You can find the work in an open source project here: https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench.  Feel free to try it out and see what experiences you have.  The brevity of Python combined with the ease-of-use of VirtualBench make a really compelling experience.  As an example from https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench/blob/master/examples/dmm_example.py.

from pyvirtualbench import PyVirtualBench, PyVirtualBenchException, DmmFunction

# This examples demonstrates how to make measurements using the Digital
# Multimeter (DMM) on a VirtualBench.

try:
    virtualbench = PyVirtualBench('myVirtualBench')
    dmm = virtualbench.acquire_digital_multimeter();
    dmm.configure_measurement(DmmFunction.DC_VOLTS, True, 10.0)

    for i in range(10):
        print("Measurement %d: %f V" % (i, dmm.read()))

    dmm.release()
except PyVirtualBenchException as e:
    print("Error/Warning %d occurred\n%s" % (e.status, e))
finally:
    virtualbench.release()

[Hooovahh]

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ZachHindes wrote:

I would like to point out that a VirtualBench enthusiast created Python bindings for our C API!  You can find the work in an open source project here: https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench.  Feel free to try it out and see what experiences you have.  The brevity of Python combined with the ease-of-use of VirtualBench make a really compelling experience.  As an example from https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench/blob/master/examples/dmm_example.py.

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Both of your links are broken.

https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench/blob/master/examples/dmm_example.py

and 

https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench

But also I think what is most interesting is seeing this API being used with a video demonstration here.

http://armstrap.org/2015/07/27/pyvirtualbench-controlling-five-instruments-from-a-single-python-appl...

[ZachHindes]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

Both of your links are broken.

https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench/blob/master/examples/dmm_example.py

and 

https://github.com/armstrap/armstrap-pyvirtualbench

But also I think what is most interesting is seeing this API being used with a video demonstration here.

http://armstrap.org/2015/07/27/pyvirtualbench-controlling-five-instruments-from-a-single-python-appl...

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Ugh, thanks for that.  Sometimes WYSIWYG editors are too smart for their own good.  Thanks for the link to the video as well!

[saizan]

I request that audio IIS decoding is added also.   

Thanks,

Robert