Our company is currently developing a new piece of instrumentation (A pressure calibrator) and is required to be IEE488.2 compliant with both GPIB and RS232. We need assistance in writing both code for the instrument and a suitable PC driver for Labview.

[550instrument]

FIRSTLY: We are in the process of writing the SCPI language interpreter into our latest peice of instrumentation which is a pressure calibrator. The instrument uses a PC104 based system and so can be programmed in a standard PC enviorement. Is there available a Borland c++ library file that has been pre-written which already takes care of SCPI interpretation code and would patch in to our existing instrument code.

SECONDLY: We will need a driver interface for Labview that will enable customers to com
municate with our instrument under GPIB and Serial connection. Would it be possible for national instruments to write a driver for us if we provide our SCPI command tree and the required functionality. Or can you suggest a good starting template from you existing database of instrument driver templates so we can modify it to our specific needs.

The long and short of all this is that we need our instrument working with GPIB/RS232 in as quicker time as possible together with a suitable Labview driver and are willing to ship out as much software work as is possible to speed up the development process.

Any guidance you can give us will be greatly appreciated.

Please do not hesitate to contact me (chris davis - software design engineer) when you need further information as no doubt you will.

[Ryan_M]

: Our company is currently developing a new piece of instrumentation (A pressure calibrator) and is required to be IEE488.2 compliant with both GPIB and RS232. We need assistance in writing both code for the instrument and a suitable PC driver for Labview.Mr. Davis,

I am not imediately familiar with a preexisting BORLAND/SCPI interpreter. Also, National Instruments develops Instrument drivers based on demand and popularity. If it is a commercially available instrument, you can officially request one at:
http://zone.ni.com/idnet/other.htm
We develop drivers based on demand and popularity so the more requests we have for it, the greater the possibility that we will develop one in the future.

If you would like to try developing your own instrument driver (or modify the existing one), we have documentation, model instrument drivers, and driver templates to help at :
http://zone.ni.com/idnet/development.htm).

We also have a syndicate of third party vendors that specialize in National Instruments' products and serv
ices. Some of the vendors specialize in driver development. I would suggest contacting one of the Alliance members at:
http://www.ni.com/alliance