VISA driver for Agilent 53131A

[Nickel]

Hello !

I´m looking for a driver to the instrument Agilent 53131A...
The current driver (on IDNET) for download don´t have/use VISA (current driver is CERTIFIED by NI but VISA is not implemented, strange ?) !


Software: Labview 7, Teststand 3

Maybe someone else already have done this work ?

(I don´t like re-work...)


Thanks in advance
Niklas Lithander
NOTE Norrtelje AB

[Ray.R]

The Labview driver is available by National Instruments to registered users.

Follow this link:

http://search.ni.com/query.html?col=alldocs&layout=IDNet&qp=contenttype:instrumentdriver&qt=53131A

-JLV-

[Ray.R]

I appologize. I should have read your post more closely.

You are right. The driver is not done using VISA. It uses direct GPIB commands.

I will be working with this instrument in January. I will look for any VISA version.

Regards,

JLV

[Ray.R]

Let's try again...

Try these steps:

1. Follow the link in my previous post.
2. Download the "CVI" version.
3. Extract the zipped contents into a temporary directory.
4. Start LabView.
5. Open a blank vi.
6. Under TOOLS => Instrumentation => select "Import CVI instrument driver"
7. Select "HP5313XA.FP" from your temp directory.
8. It should select all already, so simply click on "OK".
9. Let it convert.
10. Go back to the "new" block diagram in LV.
11. OPEN a file called "HP5313XA.llb". It is located in the instrument library inside your LabVIEW directory.
12. Select the vi you want (ex: initialize.vi)
13. It will be in VISA.

14 🐵

-enjoy-

JLV

[Nickel]

Hello Joe !

Many thanks for the tip...
But I still have one problem !
I think I miss an important part...
"HP53131XA_32.dll"

How can I get the DLL ?
(Do you have the possibility to compile this...)

//Niklas Lithander

[Ray.R]

I am sorry, I do not have that dll file either.

-JLV-

[Nickel]

Hello !

I asked NI in Sweden and they helped me with
the compilation...

See attached files (1 file is the LIB-file)

//Niklas Lithander
NOTE Norrtelje AB

[Maverick...]

Hi All,

I have developed TestStand sequences for Measurements using Agilent 53131A frequency counter instrument. I have developed 2 sequences one using CVI drivers and the other using LabVIEW drivers. The functionality of the sequence is as follows

1. Initialize the instrument

2. Measure the frequency for N number of times

3. Close the instrument

What I could find is the LabVIEW driver based sequence is working fine (for any number of measurements) but the CVI driver based sequence is showing Timeout errors after 1or 2 measurements.

Thsi is the driver page http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.model_page?p_model_id=1003 

Can anyone help me to find the root cause of this issue?

Thanks in advance...