How to use labview to talk to PC ELITE IEEE 488 Interface

[Abhishek]

hi,
I am trying to talk to EAC 300HR and EAC 2000 controllers using PC ELITE IEEE 488 Interface throguh labview. It would help if someone cpould give me a clue ablout how to start with it??

ABhishek

[DiegoF]

Hi,

As with any hardware, this board should come with its device driver. The device driver allows you communicate with the device from your application.

Also, the device driver needs to provide Language Interface files. For example, NI-488.2 (NI's GPIB driver) provides header and library files for Visual C, .bas files for Visual Basic and VIs for LabVIEW. Each of these allows you to call the GPIB function from any of these programming environment.

You should check the documentation of you board and determine what Language interface files it provides. Look in their website for any LabVIEW drivers.

If the driver does not provide LabVIEW drivers, you can still use the driver if it provides a dll where you can call the driver function. In labVIEW yo
u can use the Call library node to directly call dll functions.

DiegoF.
National Instruments.