I'm interested in finding a driver for an HP 4142B.

[kphite]

I've searched everywhere with no luck. I did find that there is a Labwindows/CVI driver, and I found an VEE driver. Is it possible to somehow convert one of these to use with LabVIEW?

[Kim L]

Hello,
You can do one of two things to use the CVI driver in LabVIEW. First, if you have CVI installed on your computer then you can create a dll out of the driver and call the dll from LabVIEW using the "Call Library Function". If you do not have CVI on your computer then you can use "Import CVI Instrument Driver" in LabVIEW. You can find this option in the Tools>>Instrumentation menu. In order to use this feature, you must have the CVI Run-time Engine. It is a free download at:
http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/current?OpenView&Start=1&Count=500&Expand=23#23

The CVI Function Panel Conversion dialog box is designed to work with function panels for instrument drivers that use the standard set of VXIplug&play and IVI (Interchangeable Virtual Instruments)
data types. Conversion might not work for function panels that use data types that exist outside that standard.

Good luck.

Kim L.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[mrbipon]

Hi Kim,

Is there are CVI driver for the HP 4142B? I tried using the 4155B driver in LabVIEW but the command set is very different from the manual and the instrument doesn't seem to recognize these commands. If there were a CVI driver, maybe not on NI's website, that I could download it would be terrific. Thanks for your help.

Khan