How to use labview to control HP network analyzer and stepper motor for measurement

[sherry_xin]

Hi,

I have a HP network analyzer and a stepper motor with ULN2003 driver. The NWA is connected with my laptop with USB-GPIB cable and ULN2003 driver by USB-PARALLEL port cable. What I want to do is writing a labview program to control them for testing.  I plan to write two sub-programs,one for motor and the other for NWA and then put them in a loop.  As the program for NWA, I just need it to do a measurement one time and save the data in the certain folder in me computer. To simplify the program, the command for setting NWA will not be included. I have downloaded the NI driver for NWA, but it's complicated for me as I'm a new learner for labview. 

Could anyone can tell me what should I do? How to write the program?  I would be appreciated for that. 

[JasoNI]

Hi sherry_xin,

I saw on an earlier post that you are using a HP 8720D and I assume that this is the NWA you are talking about. Included in the Plug and Play driver that you are using are two examples. I would suggest looking at those examples in order to start your program. They are located in the following directory: <LabVIEW>\instr.lib\Agilent 87XX Series\Examples

Regards,

Jason D

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

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@sherry_xin wrote:

Hi,

I have a HP network analyzer and a stepper motor with ULN2003 driver. The NWA is connected with my laptop with USB-GPIB cable and ULN2003 driver by USB-PARALLEL port cable. What I want to do is writing a labview program to control them for testing.  I plan to write two sub-programs,one for motor and the other for NWA and then put them in a loop.  As the program for NWA, I just need it to do a measurement one time and save the data in the certain folder in me computer. To simplify the program, the command for setting NWA will not be included. I have downloaded the NI driver for NWA, but it's complicated for me as I'm a new learner for labview. 

Could anyone can tell me what should I do? How to write the program?  I would be appreciated for that. 

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Learning LabVIEW would be useful. http://www.ni.com/academic/students/learnlabview/