IVI drivers for fluke 5700a

[ishank]

Hey,

Can anybody get me IVI drivers for Fluke 5700A multi-function Calibrator.

It will be of great help.

Thanks in advance. 

[Albert.Geven]

Hi

If you are programming in LabVIEW you can better use the existing plug and play or project style  driver.

Easier to debug and better readable than most IVI drivers.

Although I really like the IVI concept of replaceble drivers, most are black boxes that are difficult to debug.

If you are not programming in LabVIEW yet maybe someone should create a c interfaceabove such a LabVIEW driver.

Easy and maybe even possible in IVI style.

[ishank]

Thanks for replying.

Actually we have two calibrators 5700A, as well as 5720A. So, it will be highly beneficial for me to use IVI drivers. We can use the single piece of software for both instruments using IVI.

That's the main point.

[Albert.Geven]

So I assume you have already an IVI driver for the other machine.

If the commandsets are not to different it is also easy with a LabVIEW driver.

And I have mixed all kind of instruments in LabVIEW with a self defined API and then calling the plug and play driver.

Just a small skin over the existing driver is close to the IVI philosophy.

[ishank]

Thanks again for replying.

Can you post me any examples, it will be of great help. Actually, I am new to this stuff. 

[NathanT]

Hello Ishank,

       This example and paper has some good ideas:

How to Mitigate Hardware Obsolescence in Next-Generation Test Systems\

Cheers,

NathanT

[jjp377]

In LabWindows/CVI you can try to create a genereal purpose IVI driver with the IVI Specific Driver Wizard from Tools>> IVI Specific Driver

[Albert.Geven]

Hi

You did  not answer my question on the IVI driver for the other machine.

[ishank]

@Albert

Yes, I have IVI drivers for other machine.

[Albert.Geven]

thanks, now I understand