Cirris

[penndragon]

Our company is planning on testing with the Cirris easy-wire CR and LabVIEW. Cirris told us other customers of theirs have used this combination but as they do not specificaly use this system they are not sure how to set it up. They said it had something to do with the Digital I/O and Windows Message Interface.  So somewhere out there someone has done this before. This is good to know because now that I know it can be done all I have to do is figure out how it is done. Any suggestions or have any of you ever actualy set this up before? As far as I can tell, it looks like I'm going pretty much write all the code for this which I'm seriously not looking forward to. Thanks!!

[rajeevan@1978]

Haa anybody run the cirris tester thorough labview?

[BennyBenson]

Hi Rajeevan,

Since the cirris tester uses Windows message interface, the following forum posts and NI example may be of help.

Windows Message Queue Library

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/Windows-Message-Queue-Library/ta-p/3996212

Windows Messaging

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Windows-messaging/m-p/1009144

Windows Messaging

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/windows-messaging/m-p/523979

[Lino22B]

hi, Do you solve this problem with cirris, I'm very interest in the solution because I'll be trying soon, any help its an advance

[rajeevan@1978]

Hi Lino,

I was able to run the tester with LabVIEW to a certain extend, only thing I haven't able to solve is not able to pick the result ( whether good or bad) directly form the tester as not able to detect the printer port of the tester. 

[Lino22B]

thanks for your message, I will try another stuff something should work eventually

[rajeevan@1978]

All the best, hope you will be sharing your success.

[Diginous]

I do work with the CIRRIS 1100R+ and LabVIEW..  We do interface with it via VISA using CTL(Cirris Test Language)..  We do everything from reading good/bad to sending it wire lists stored in txt format for a unique computer based test system..  CTL is the way to go and we run 12 stands for over the last 10 years..  you should be able to interface to most testers that can be remotely controlled using CTL..  Just look at the commands with CTL and write a VISA engine to do this..  I myself am trying now to mitigate with the newer 4200 series CIRRIS test platform, as they have changed a few things which has glitched the current engine (however does still work with some added steps).  I was just browsing to see if anyone had ever worked with the 4200, but seeing it's the new kid on the block I'm guessing probably not..  Hope that helps..

[rajeevan@1978]

Hi D,

Thanks for sharing your experience with Cirris,

Still I am struck up with picking the result directly from tester equipment. If you don't mind , could you share your code ( which contains a reading the result from the tester directly) for me.

Thanks in advance

Stay safe...

[Diginous]

First off, which version CIRRIS tester are you using?  There is a slight difference in some of the testers and how they work, IE, for the newer CIRRIS 4200 testers, and require to connect at a special baud rate, since they have USB.  Some newer signature 1100R+ have either a USB or a RS-232 port, in any case, these are the terminals you will use to talk via PC..  I will send an example because the engine, although relatively straight forward, has a bunch of commands needed..  second, are you going to send a wire list to the machine?  or are you using a stored wire list (resident in memory?)..  Do you currently use and of the cirris software to talk to it IE easywire, or CTLWin

Diginous