Any recommended drivers for Agilent 4155c?

[xintai]

Hi,

I am planning to control Agilent 4155c by labview. However I just learned this in a month. So could anybody could give me some recommendation for the driver of 4155c? My OS is windows xp w/ labview 2009 full development.

I searched the driver network, there is 2 drivers for 4156c (project style & dll with wrapper) and previously somebody says the project style is better. So does the project style driver of 4156c also fit 4155c?

It's my first time to post message here, please tell me if you need any further information.

Thank you very time! 

[markus kossmann · Accepted solution]

If you look at Agilents site for GPIB programming manuals for these devices, you will find only one for both the 4155c and the 4156c.  So they are basically  using the same command set.  So the project style driver should also basically work with the 4155c.

With two possible exceptions: The driver might not accept the response of an ID query (*IDN?) of the 4155c.  But that should be easy to adapt in the project style driver. And the 4156c might support some command strings, which are not supported by the 4155c ( Agilents GPIB programming manual should list these commands). If the project style drive make use of one of these commands, you have to avoid the VI, which is using this command string.

[xintai]

Thank you very much! I think I start to know something of labview gradually.

🙂