Starting LabView program for Agilent (HP) 81110A, need some help

[mladanov]

Hi, All,

We have Agilent 81110A Pulse Generator. We have LabView 7.1. We have the Instrument Driver, So I can use bunch of 81110A SubVIs. The problem is - there's lack of description and manuals for that (for LabView specifically). I was just trying start it different ways - something's missing. It's not explained anywhere how to build a program with those VIs.

The good thing - I was able to find some LabView programming examples for out other piece - Agilent DSO6052A. That really helped a lot.
So I'm wondering, if anybody could provide me with some programming examples for 81110A. I would appreicate that a lot, and that would help me to move from that dead point.

Thanks a lot!

[Dennis_Knutson]

Included in the driver is a VI called HP81110A Getting Started which calls the HP81110A Application Example. Like all drivers, help for the functions and the controls is included in the VI. Go to the help menu and turn on Context Help. When you browse through the functions on the palette, you will see a description of the function. When you open a function, as you move your mouse over the controls, you will see a description of what the control does and usually valid choices.

[mladanov]

I don't have that VI. Probably, wrong version of the Instrument Driver?
Also, although there's a context help, it's not always sufficient for me to understand, HOW to build the program.

[Dennis_Knutson]

There is only one version of the driver for 7.1 and it is the one at http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E94BB659CE034080020E748.... If you installed it correctly, you should have the examples on your palette.

Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 08-29-2007 12:54 PM

[mladanov]

Thanks a lot.
I had something completely different. It even looked differently on the palette.
File names were different.
Going to reboot LabView and see what's going on.
Thanks a lot!

[mladanov]

That's how it looked:

[Dennis_Knutson]

Where did you get that driver? It's not the one on NI's site unless you downloaded the CVI driver and converted it to a LabVIEW one. Or, did you download an IVI driver from Agilent?

[mladanov]

Honestly, don't remember. It was too much files and downloads. Most probably from Agilent. Commands and SubVIs are the same - it's just graphical and with some reasonable explanation. And examples, of course.

Look, could you answer a quick question? I need to make one single pulse right after I press a button in the program (kind of software trigger), and then after ~1-100ms - another one, with different width and amplitude. That's it, it's not periodical. What modes and what subvi's would you recommend for that?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Actually, nothing is the same with the IVI (or whatever) driver you have and the one from NI. The functions and subVIs are different names. The functions in the driver you have are just LabVIEW wrappers for a call library node function into a dll. The ones from NI are all written in LabVIEW and you can view and modify the code. Since you don't seem to be getting anywhere with the driver you got, why don't you just download the one I gave the link to?

[mladanov]

That's what I did. I downloaded it and trying to work with it now.