NI Max and Ballard ARINC 429 card

[krispiekream]

Hello,

I have this system. 

I have two Ballard Arinc 429 cards in there, but I don't see them listed on NI Max. 

Should It be there?

I was told that since it's a Ballard card and not NI. It will not show up on NI Max. Not sure what to believe.

any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you

[rolfk]

Where are those cards installed? In the PXI chassis or in your PC as PCI/PCIe card?

In the first case it should be visible in NI-MAX at least as a generic card, although you can't do much with it in NI-MAX, since PXI actually has some resource enumeration standards.

In the second case there is no hope. NI-MAX only can access cards that are accessed through an NI driver such as DAQmx, IMAQdx, NI-XNET etc. 

[krispiekream]

they are in the chassis right now. 

SLot 5 and Slot 10

[danny_t · Accepted solution]

If you mean the Ballard OmniBus II PXI card, I used this about two years ago and it NEVER appears in the PXI list of cards in NI MAX. It took me a little while to figure it all out, how you configure it and find it.

To access the cards you first need to install the PXI drivers for the card provided by Ballard. 

Find and download BTIINST64-DRIVERS.EXE or BTIINST32-DRIVERS.EXE go through the usual licenses and do you really want to do this screens, if the PXI rack is connected and powered on it should then autodetect and self identify your cards and tell you what drivers to install else manually tick the OmniBus II cPCIe/ PXIe Driver.

I found the picture below in my notes.

Once the drivers is installed, you then need a program called “BTITST64-TEST" or “BTITST32-TEST  to launch the Ballard OmniBus II test program, this will allow you to actually see your card in the PXI rack and get some small feeling off "yep it is actually there :-)"

Here you can see the PXI slot the cards are found in for each card. Note the Card numbers as that is used by the API to talk to the correct card when programming with them, I think they defaulted  both to the same number Card 0 so you may need to change one of them if that is the case.

I hope this helps

cheers 

Danny

[krispiekream]

thank you guys so much for taking the time out of your busy to help me with this. i greatly appreciated. 

[RRBB]

Hi Danny,

I have got the same problem. I couldnt the the ballard ARINC 429 slots in Max.  But I can see the core  A and core B cards in BTITST32 application.

How can I bring those in my Ni MAX  with com port selection. I have to select respective com ports for communication in my program.

Thanks

[RRBB]

Hi,

Does anyone  has a sample VI for Ballard ARINC 429 communication Please

[ZYOng]

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@RRBB wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone  has a sample VI for Ballard ARINC 429 communication Please

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[danny_t]

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@RRBB wrote:

Hi Danny,

I have got the same problem. I couldnt the the ballard ARINC 429 slots in Max.  But I can see the core  A and core B cards in BTITST32 application.

How can I bring those in my Ni MAX  with com port selection. I have to select respective com ports for communication in my program.

Thanks

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You cannot to my knowledge, show the Ballard card in NI MAX, if you see the cards in the BTITST32 application they are there and ready for use.

Somebody else has already point you to the drivers, there were examples within the drivers download file. 

I very highly recommend you find  BTIDriver 429 Manual.PDF and read it, the example code is not LabVIEW but C, however the code snippets are short and easy to figure out. This document explains how the card works and what is functions do.