IV Measurement with E5270B?

[ASpiegel]

HI Folks!

I'm rather new to Labview and i was asked to to some programming on a Agilent E5270B Multiple Source mEasurement unit...
Has anyone of you done something on this machine already? I'd appreciate you communicating me your VI's to help me get started with this task.

Thanks for your help

[smercurio_fc]

What is it that you're trying to do? Get drivers for the instrument, or do you want to know how to use the instrument? For the latter, the obvious question is: do you have the manual? If not, you can get it from the Agilent web site. For drivers, you can find a LabWindows/CVI driver from Agilent. It contains a .fp (front panel) file that you can use to create LabVIEW wrapper VIs so you can call the drivers from LabVIEW.

[ASpiegel]

Hi Smercurio

Thank you very much for your hint.
Unfortunately i don't have access to LabWindows environment, so i can't convert the agilent drivers. Do you have labWindows? May I ask you to help me out on this and sent it to me?
Thank you very much
Best regards
Andreas

[smercurio_fc]

You don't need LabWindows. You just need to download the free LabVIEW Interface Generator from the NI site. This will convert the .fp file that comes with the instrument driver to LabVIEW wrapper VIs. You will, of course, need to download and install the instrument driver from Agilent.

1. Install the instrument driver. Remember where you install this. By default it puts it in "C:\VXIPNP\WinNT\AGE5270".
   
2. Install the LabVIEW Interface Generator (make sure LabVIEW isn't running when you do this).
3. Launch LabVIEW.
4. Select the "Tools->Instrumentation->Create VI Interface to CVI Instrument Driver..." menu item.
   
5. Follow the wizard to create your LabVIEW VIs.

Post back if you still have problems.

[ASpiegel]

Thank you very much, finally I'm able to do some programming on the E5270B!