Interfacing of RS232 serial devices through USB ports within LabVIEW 6.1 and Windows 2000 Pro?

[FraserD]

I have a data acqusition requirement of using 5 RS232 devices, but the motherboard i use only has two serial ports. However, it does have 4 USB ports. Does anyone know if it is possible to use these USB ports to input data from an RS232 device through a serial to USB converter?

Does LabVIEW 6.1 support this under Windows 2000 Pro?

Thanks in advance,

Fraser

[Mads]

No problem. Most serial to usb converters have a driver that makes them appear as standard serial ports, that way you can communicate to them just as if they were...

Check out:
http://www.gwctech.com/ebproductdetail.asp?id=47

or

http://www.digi.com/products/usb/index.jsp

[Chris_Rake]

Not to mention NI's line of USB-232 converters:

http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?cid=11371〈=US

[Ben]

Hi Fraser,

I just moved an app to a new laptop and had to use a USB to serial comm adapter. At first try the app did not find the comm port.

After sleeping on it, we downlaoded the most up-to-date driver for the device and upgraded VISA to the latest and gretest version.

Everything worked fine after that.

Ben

[FraserD]

Ben

Thanks for the info.I'll try it!

Fraser