Lecroy Wavesurfer VICP and LXI/VXI11

[Glise]

Hello,

I want to connect a Lecroy Wavesurfer 454 to Labview.

First I used the VICP connection, and installed the VICP passport. 

It does not work with NI MAX but it does with Lecroy Wavestudio.

Then I used the LXI/VXI-11 connection but Ni MAX does not detect my scope and Lecroy Wavestudio as well.

Further information, I don't use both softwares at the same time, the scope and the computer have ping responds.

I have updated the scope to the latest firmware 6.8.1.4 32 bit Firmware Upgrade.

The only way that Ni MAX reachs to connect to the scope it throug : TCPIP0::ipadress:1861:SOCKET. But then I have Time out error.

Thanks for help

[Leonard33]

Hello,

You have a few choices here.  NI-MAX (more specifically, NI-VISA) stopped working with the VICP resource when NI introduced 64 bit LabVIEW support. (It stopped when the NI-VISA Interactive Tool GUI changed).

You can use an older version of NI-VISA (I do not recommend this method), or you can simply enable the VICP passport in NI-MAX and use LabVIEW to test the connection.

The VISA resource for the VICP interface will be:  VICP::<IP address of scope>

I have attached a VI I wrote (pretty easy, but I added some images and comments to help with the scope side and resource names as well) to help test this out. (I have it in LabVIEW versions 2009, 2010, and 2011)  I am providing the 2011 version.  Let me know if you need one of the others.

The VICP connection uses the custom port but with the resource you used (that specified the port), the VICP passport is not being utilized by NI-VISA so you may get responses to some legacy 488 commands but that is the extent of it.  (i.e. *IDN? may work, but C1:VDIV 1.0 would not).

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Leonard Brown
Applications Engineer
Teledyne LeCroy
1-800-553-2769

[Glise]

Thank you for your explanations. It seems to work. 

Regards 

Adrien

[Leonard33]

Hello Adrien,

It was my pleasure!

Regards,

Leonard Brown
Applications Engineer
Teledyne LeCroy
1-800-553-2769