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How to run te336x arbitrary waveform example?

Hi, our lab recently purchased a te3362 (Tabor Electronics) Arbitrary Wavefore Generator.  I cannot find the documentation to create a labview program that is able communicate with the te3362.  Where can I find the documentation?  I also tried running the  te336x arbitrary waveform example downloaded from the te download page but cannot run the example becasue of an error. 

Details:
te336x Initialize With Options.vi<ERR>Driver Status:  (Hex 0xBFFF0011) Insufficient location information or the requested device or resource is not present in the system.

I am using a serial port (RS 232) and a windows computer.  The resource name on the top left of the front panel says GPIB0::2::INSTR by default. What am i supposed to change this to?
Thanks in advance!



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You're supposed to change it to the actual VISA resource that the instrument is connected to. In you case, you don't have a GPIB controller but are connected to a serial port. Change it to the com port you're plugged into (i.e. Com1 or Com2). You also have to hope that the vendor has support for a serial instrument in the driver they wrote.

Any documentation is provided by the vendor. If they followed the NI Instrument Driver guidelines, there should be a top level VI called te336x Example or Getting Started that demonstrates how to use some of the lower level functions in the driver.

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