Labview driver for an EG&G Ortec 9308 time analyzer

[John_Mountford]

I am trying to interface Labview to an ORTEC 9308 picosecond time analyzer. All I want to do is to set up the offset and span parameters and to start and stop an acquisition and then read back the data collected in the bins.

Can anyone help... I know that there is a DLL development kit for the insrument however it uses C++ include structures to pass data to and from the insrument.

[AaronK]

Hi John,

Developing a new LV instrument driver should not be that difficult. An instrument driver is a collection of functions that implement the commands necessary to perform the instrument�s operations. In short, someone read the instrument user manual and implemented some of the functionality in a program for the end user.

There are example VI's in LV on Instrument Connectivity. If you go to the Help menu >> Examples.. >> I/O, you will see a couple and Examples.. >> Fundamentals for File and String manipulation. I would suggest tweaking them to suit your application. Also the specific command that your instrument responds to can be found from it's manual.

Some useful resources for your application are
ni.com > NI Developer Zone > Development Library
> Instrument Connectivity
http://search.ni.com/?col=alldocs&layout=TechResources&ql=a , to search examples and knowledge bases.

Hope this helps out!

Best Regards,
Aaron K.
Application Engineer
National Instruments