A Labview Driver for HP 1413 & VXI

[RTR]

Gentlemen:

I need a good driver for an HP 1413 D/A card operating in the VXI
environment.
I have one I got from HP that is worthless, and using generic VISA commands
are pretty slow. Is there a better option out there somewhere?

Thanks for your help.

[kmcdevitt]

RTR,

OK, but this has been taken some investigation.

At some point HP became Agilent.

At some point after that Agilent became VXI Technologies.

Then some time later VXI Technologies changed their name to VTI Technolgies.

Feel free to correct me on the above, but I think the above is correct, at least regarding the 1413.

Anyway, the 1413 has been available from all four of the companies named above, with similar model numbers.

From what I can gather the 1413 does not do D/A but is in fact an A/D.

This may have been what has caused you your troubles.

Also, try the NI-VISA and/or NI-VXI drivers.  They may be of some help.

The 1413 does well at Temperature measurements, better than what I can find at NI so far.

To the best of my understanding, NI-VXI is not useable with LabVIEW Real Time nor LabWindows/CVI Real Time.

Kevin.

[smercurio_fc]

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@kmcdevitt wrote:

RTR,

OK, but this has been taken some investigation.

At some point HP became Agilent.

At some point after that Agilent became VXI Technologies.

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Agilent did not become VXI Technologies: www.agilent.com. I think you're mixing the sell-off of the VXI products with the company.

Also, are you aware that you're responding to a thread that 11 years old?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Did you notice that you responded to 11 year old post? In any case Agilent did not become VXI Technologies. After the split of HP into a computer company (HP) and an instrument one (Agilent), Agilent sold all of their VXI product line when VXI sales dropped and newer technology such as PXI overtook it.

[kmcdevitt]

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smercurio_fc wrote:

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Agilent did not become VXI Technologies: www.agilent.com. I think you're mixing the sell-off of the VXI products with the company.

Also, are you aware that you're responding to a thread that 11 years old?

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smercurio_fc,

You are correct of couse.  I was refering to the same item being manufactured and marketed by the four different company names.

And about the 11 years, I just did not want for RTR to feel neglected and disrespected.  It can get quite lonely you there waiting for over a decade for somebody show you the time of day.

Kevin.

[smercurio_fc]

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kmcdevitt wrote: 

And about the 11 years, I just did not want for RTR to feel neglected and disrespected.  It can get quite lonely you there waiting for over a decade for somebody show you the time of day.

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I think if RTR has been waiting around for 11 years for the answer he's got bigger problems.   

[kmcdevitt]

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@Dennis Knutson wrote:
Did you notice that you responded to 11 year old post? In any case Agilent did not become VXI Technologies. After the split of HP into a computer company (HP) and an instrument one (Agilent), Agilent sold all of their VXI product line when VXI sales dropped and newer technology such as PXI overtook it.

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Hello Dennis,

Yes, I just hope RTR has not gottened disallusioned over the years.  You and spercurio are correct of course about HP,Agilent,VXI Tech, and VTI.  All of those companies are still around, just the VXI E1413 got handed off a few times.

Looks like PXI seams to have overtaken VXI years and years ago for sure.

Dennis, do you work much with PXI?

It is interesting that Agilent has recently jumped in to the PXI platform bigtime.

I own about thirty 18-slot PXI chassises with PXI embedded controllers.  

All but one is PXI only, one is a PXIe chassis with a combination of PXI, Hybrid, and Express slots.

It gets frustrating trying to move from PXI to PXIe.

However Agilent has had an 18 slot all Hybrid Chassis for over a year now.

Looks absolutely awesome.  Hope NI comes out with an all Hybrid Chassis soon.

Kevin.

[kmcdevitt]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

I think if RTR has been waiting around for 11 years for the answer he's got bigger problems.   

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Yes, I think the bigest problem was getting the A/D card confused as a D/A card.  Luckily this is just a waist of time, but does not lead to letting out the blue smoke.  However, if he had confused an output card as an input card, this might lead one to connect two outputs together.

Or maybe it was just a typo.  Anyway, looks like he also had some driver issues also.

By the way, do you know if the NI-VXI drivers work with LabVIEW Real Time?

Kevin.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't do nearly that much PXI. Interestingly, my current customer has a legacy test system based on VXI - a system I delivered a good 15 years ago.

[kmcdevitt]

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@Dennis Knutson wrote:
I don't do nearly that much PXI. Interestingly, my current customer has a legacy test system based on VXI - a system I delivered a good 15 years ago.

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Did you use LabVIEW back then or HP-VEE or CSKIPY?

Nice to hear that your VXI system has survived the test of time.

Those other companies still make those VXI cards I presume.

Our VXI E1413, E1432, and E1433 cards keep working even after about 18 years.

All 88 of our DSA PXI cards from NI got recalled.  Bummer.

Lately we have been getting informed of the end of life of

both PXI and, believe it or not, end of life letters for PXIe cards.

My all time favorite programming language was HP Rocky Mountain Basic.

HP Basic was both the Programming Language and the OS all wrapped in to one.

Maybe there will be an HP-9845B show up on ebay some day.

However, now I happy to love LabVIEW and the PXI platform even with its frustrations.

Kevin.