NI-VISA smaller installation package avialable?

[sorinxxxx]

Hi

Our LXI instruments use IVI drivers to communicate to our LAN instruments. The IVI drivers call into NI-VISA COM in order to access the TCPIP resource instruments found on the LAN. To use TCPIP resources I had to install the full NI-VISA version that is visa420full.exe that has a size of 218 MB. Along with VISA libraries a lot of other useful NI resources and tools are installed as NI-Spy, Measurement Explorer and others.

I want to know if I may find a smaller NI-VISA installation version in size as the NI VISA visa32.dll installed in Windows/sytem32 folder is only 172 kB in size?

For our clients that buy our LXI instruments I am interesed in only having NI-VISA (visa32.dll) installed and not all the other tools that comes along with visa420full.exe.

Here I have to mention that all our LXI instruments use embedded NI GPIB chips inside so we have to right to ship visa420full version but the size of it make the proposition dificult. 

If they need more NI software tools for their debugging then they could buy these tools directly from NI I suppose.

Thanks

sorinvalea

[Makoto]

NI-VISA 4.3 Runtime Engine is the smaller version of NI-VISA package.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/989/lang/en

The full version is a 300MB setup image but the ruintime is only 30MB.

As for VISA32.DLL, VISA software does not work only with that DLL, because there are much dependency to other DLL and/or driver components. Therefore just copying VISA32.DLL to System32 directory is not enough.

このメッセージは　06-26-2008 09:51 AMに Makoto が編集しています。