Interacing Labview with a CAN bus interface

[Luca]

I should use a CAN parallel/serial interface produced by
ACTIA(NetPorty II) and i'm using Win XP and LV 6.1. What is the
simplest method to use it in a "user friendly" way (i'd like to avoid
writing a driver myself)?
Does anyone of you own the same card and/or must face similar
problems??
If you want you can answer me via e-mail...

Thank you in advance,
Luca

[DiegoF]

Hi,

It really depends on the software the manufacturer provides to handle this device.

If the manufacturer provides an API that exports the CAN bus specific functions and internally handles the parallel or serial communication, it would be recommended to use this API. Most likely the API will have a C interface, so you can use the library function call nodes to access these functions.

If the manufacturer only provides a list of command you need to send to the device, then the problem is no different from communicating this other devices (like scopes, DMM). basically, you can use VISA to send the required commands to the device.

Hope this helps.

DiegoF.
National Instruments.

[Luca]

Thank you for your answer, i'll try to work at it...i'm a novice!
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:58:08 -0600 (CST), DiegoF wrote:

>Hi,
>
>It really depends on the software the manufacturer provides to handle
>this device.
>
>If the manufacturer provides an API that exports the CAN bus specific
>functions and internally handles the parallel or serial communication,
>it would be recommended to use this API. Most likely the API will
>have a C interface, so you can use the library function call nodes to
>access these functions.
>
>If the manufacturer only provides a list of command you need to send
>to the device, then the problem is no different from communicating
>this other devices (like scopes, DMM). basically, you can use VISA
>to send the required com
mands to the device.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>DiegoF.
>National Instruments.