Is there any LabView support for an IO Tech AT488A card?

[JESCO]

I am attempting to use a model "AT488A" from the company "IOTech". The card is a PC-AT bus to GPIB interface.

I would like to find out if there are any drivers available to allow this card to be used with LabView version 8 running on W2000.

I've worked with the PCI-488 cards and USB-488 cards from NI, but not this AT488A card. I would ideally like to see the IOTech card recognized and appear in NI-MAX.

Thanks!

[ni_n_hp_fan]

Agilent GPIB interfaces are the only interfaces that I've ever seen recognized in MAX - Agilent 488.2 interfaces have a "Tulip" Passport to hook into MAX.  Unfortunately the only way that the AT488A card will be seen and configured in MAX is if IOTech has supplied a similar passport.

If you have drivers for your AT4882 card, you might be able to use those drivers in LabVIEW, using ActiveX programming, but that is just a possibility, and requires IOTech to have supplied the DLL with ActiveX objects.

[f.grasdepot@laposte.net]

JESCO wrote:
> I am attempting to use a model "AT488A" from the company "IOTech". The card is a PC-AT bus to GPIB interface.
> I would like to find out if there are any drivers available to allow this card to be used with LabView version 8 running on W2000.
> I've worked with the PCI-488 cards and USB-488 cards from NI, but not this AT488A card. I would ideally like to see the IOTech card recognized and appear in NI-MAX.
> Thanks!

Hi,

the only way, to my knowledge, to program natively with GPIB card from
different brands, is to use the LabTab API to program, for instance in
LabView (or in other Windows programs). This is not an NI software but
it does enable to use, on boards from IOTech, programs developped for
NI, Agilent, Keithley or Adlink GPIB controllers. It is free for one
GPIB address and you can so test it ... ( www.labtab.com)

FG

[JESCO]

Regarding this issue: I was able to get the card to work under LabView 8.

Details:

I downloaded and installed the SW from IOTech for the AT488A.

I installed the driver for the AT488A and verified that device showed up in Device Manager and that the IOTech test programs functioned.

I then Installed LabView 8.

I then updated the GPIB-32.DLL and was then able to load and run LabView GPIB demos and communicate to a physical test GPIB device.

Most of this was documented in the IOTech manuals, most importantly was Appendex-E, and the Release Notes for the IOTech driver.

I cannot see the GPIB controller ot devices in MAX, but this is a known issue, also there are some unsupported functions, which are detailed in the driver readme.

Thanks for the input in resolving this issue.

-James

[f.grasdepot@laposte.net]

JESCO wrote:
> Regarding this issue: I was able to get the card to work under LabView 8.
> Details:
> I downloaded and installed the SW from IOTech for the AT488A.
> I installed the driver for the AT488A and verified that device showed up in Device Manager and that the IOTech test programs functioned.
> I then Installed LabView 8.
> I then updated the GPIB-32.DLL and was then able to load and run LabView GPIB demos and communicate to a physical test GPIB device.
> Most of this was documented in the IOTech manuals, most importantly was Appendex-E, and the Release Notes for the IOTech driver.
> I cannot see the GPIB controller ot devices in MAX, but this is a known issue, also there are some unsupported functions, which are detailed in the driver readme.
> Thanks for the input in resolving this issue.
> -James
>  

You are very advanced but why update the GPIB-32.dll, from experience,
when working with non-NI device in LabView, tools from other companies
are limted to some version of GPIB-32.dll when not replacing entirely
this dll. So maybe coming back to the "original" dll may help or be a
direction for finding a way ...

I was able to switch for instance from an ADLINK GPIB board to an NI by
switching the dlls from these companies ... when changing the board ...

As NI bought recently IOtech, you may perhaps require directly help
from NI about this ...

Regards,

FG