Labview GPIB Tutorial for sending commands to gen purpose equipment

[ww1]

Hi

I am reading an old NI GPIB "in-depth course" (in dos). It seems quite easy to send and receive GPIB command. Is there a GPIB tutorial for labview that will show me how to set up a piece of equipment and send/receive commands?

Wayne

[Brian_Powell]

Yes. If you have LabVIEW 6 or later, look in the LabVIEW Measurements Manual (a printed manual in your LabVIEW box, as well as a PDF installed with LabVIEW).

First of all, there are two ways to program GPIB. You can use the Traditional GPIB VIs, or you can use VISA. Both APIs are simple, but you probably want to use VISA. VISA works over GPIB, USB, Ethernet, Serial, etc., so learning it will apply to future projects, too.

In the 6.x version of the Measurements Manual, read chapter 20. In the 7.x version, read chapter 16. In either case, we have examples of using VISA to communicate with instruments.

This will give you a brief introduction to VISA. If you want to learn more, there are more advanced tutorials available on NI's web site, such as
href="http://www.ni.com/swf/presentation/us/instcontrol/">this one.

I hope this helps.

Brian