I am a test engineer trying to put together a test method. My setup consists of a laptop running LavView 2010 and a instrument which is a Win7 embedded system that includes a PCI digitizer board. I am testing the digitizer by supplying it a clean signal, taking samples and then doing a FFT to measure harmonics, SFDR, SINAD ... etc.
I am not allowed to put LabView or the runtime engine on the instrument. The tools I have on the instrument are a "register peek-poke.exe" and a "get-samples.exe." Both of these executables are located on a USB thumb drive attached to the Instrument. I am using powershell scripts called with the System Exec.vi on my laptop to remotely execute the .exe files and the standard output of those exe files are redirected to txt files on the thumb drive. I have made the thumb drive a share so I can directly read them with labview on the laptop.
I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this? I can get dll's for the two exe's and wrap some labview invoke nodes around them but how do I execute them remotely?
