Making our own drivers for instruments!!

[za3im_ensa]

Dear all;

How can I make the design of a pilot of an instrument ("In general : any insrument  ")  wich I know his SCPI language ?

Please I want the procedure as detailed !

Thank you

[PhillipBrooks]

I would start with the Instrument Drivers and Development Tools page located here:

http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/development.htm

The templates have some predesigned common queries like IDN and such. I developed my own driver for a specific instrument in LabVIEW 7.1. There are new tools, icon libraries and even a wizard to get you started.

Your first inclination will probably be to jump in and start making every command available as a sub-vi. Take time to think about how the instrument is used and then create functions that support thoses use cases. When you see a repeating pattern, create sub-vis for those and add them to the library.  These bog pages ar a bit old, but I think of Brian Powell's posting located here when I think about drivers...

Based on your description, you would use the General Purpose (Message Based) template.