Bugs in labview driver TTi TG5011 Function and pulse generator(TG5011)

[walkinwater]

hi, gurus:

           I have installed the official labview driver for TG5011 downloaded from TTi company. 

           I have run the example Generate Std Wfm.vi successfully.

          However, when I run the example of Generate Arb Wfm.vi, there is an error appears:
           Error 1074135016 occurred at TG5011 Create Arbitrary Waveform. Vi

          Possible reasons:

             Driver status (Hex 0XBFFA0018) not a valid configuration

             Primary  Error: (Hex 0XBFFA0018)  Nota a valid configuration

              Elaboration: only Arb1 to Arb4 maybe changed

            Have anybody of you meet similar problems? Any suggestion is appreciated.

            I’m much obliged to your kindness.

            Attached is the printsceen of the error message

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Since it is an officially supported driver from TTi, you should contact them first.

I suspect a syntax error with the commands being sent.

If you want to do some troubleshooting, you can always compare the commands being sent against the programming manual if there is one.

[walkinwater]

I have already contact them yesterday, but no answer yet. I hope maybe somebody here meet the same problem before, or an TTi technician just pass here by accident.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

This is a good opportunity for you to learn more about the instrument and the commands that control it by reading the programming manual.

I don't get overly dependent on drivers. If they don't work, be prepared to get your hands dirty.

[walkinwater]

Depending on how good the programming manual it is, one can have his own driver. But for TTi TG5011, the manual is really awful. The key commond for the arbitrary wavegenerator is listed as follows:

This commonad is supposed to import an array of of numerical values which describes the shape of the arbitrary waveshape.

Do you understand what the guys want to say from the description? I bet nobody except the guys from TTi knows how to use this command.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

If everything was always easy, then your company wouldn't need to hire you, would it?

From reading the manual, it seems to me that ARB1 and ARB2 and ARB3 and ARB4 are four default arbitrary waveform names.

Notice that there isn't a space between the ARB and the number 1, 2, 3, 4.

You could also define your own waveform names.

Page 85 of the manual.

Perhaps you can try using the front panel to save an arbitrary waveform into ARB1, then read it back using LabVIEW with ARB1 ? command.

This will show you what the instrument wants for <bin>.

[walkinwater]

I did exactly what you mentioned: read out the arb1 waveform by arb1?, but when I tried to input exactly the same things back into the generator. The TG5011 just give me a error message, it doesn't accept it at all.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Are you writing back to the instrument using the driver VI they gave you, or did you write your own VI?

[walkinwater]

there is no driver for that, but I found the command from the manual they offered,.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

The reverse command should be ARB1. Tricky part is the binary data.

If you still can't figure out, I guess you will need to persist in contacting unless someone here has the same instrument.