Driver for Labview for ATE-100 pressure calibrator from Ashcroft Inc

[Marcio]

Guys,

I need a subVI to communicate a pressure calibrator model ATE-100 from
Ashcroft (http://www.ashcroft.com/products.cfm?doc_id=348) with a
Labview application. The equipment has been originally shipped with and
old exe file supposed to do the job, nut I could not manage to make it
run. So I was searching for a way to exchange data it reads with the
Labview application I am writing. It seems to be standard RS-232
protocol.

Can anyone help or give me some hints?

Thnaks a lot,

Pixinguinha

[smercurio_fc]

The NI Instrument Driver Network doesn't have an instrument driver for this unit, so it looks like you're going to have to write your own drivers. You will, of course, need the programming manual from the manufacturer. This isn't all that difficult as there are tons of examples. You can just pull down, say, an instrument driver for a multimeter with a serial interface to see how it's done. To just try out serial communication you can use the "Basic Serial Write and Read" available in the LabVIEW examples. From the LabVIEW menu select Help->Find Examples. Change to the "Search" tab and enter "serial" in the search box. You'll get several examples.