12 Apr
2000
12 Apr
'00
7:43 a.m.
Forget about
Labview and its drivers...
That's my inclination as well. It's just that numerous local companies
use
it in their testing and are willing to pay almost excessive (if it's what
they pay me it's not excessive) rates for people to write scripts and
drivers for Labview to drive their instruments. Many of them are already
supported, but the new drivers are worth something. Oh, yes. The PC will do that, but at some point in
the future, I might want
to make up a little controller board with the necessary firmware to make it
able to initialize and poll, etc, and then do some specific task. I still
have a couple of those 9114's from T.I.
NEC 7210 is a good part if you can find them.
Somehow I think folks will be more interested in
having this done via
Labview or some similar suite. I'm quite sure there are GPIB card vendors
for the PC beyond N.I. Surely there's something besides LabView that's just
Several, not much differene in them. Not cheap either!
as useful. If not, it will be necessary for me to
look at whatever I can
find to enable me to prepare drivers for various instruments or, the
"generic" instrument, by using stubs for the appropriate device-specific
You need a gpib driver (like driving a NIC) and then a high level driver
that will be instrument specific. We have about different ones to
accomodate each one of the different DMMs we use! For example the
Keithley 199 uses one format, k2000 a different one and the 2001 either!
then the new HP we got is of course different... grrr!
Allison