using GPIB-PCI ines 12.002 and labview

[anous]

Hello,

It is my first participation.

My problem is as follows:

I have a Gpib-PCI Ines 12.002 and I want to use it with labview 6.0i.

What is necessary to make?

Thanks

[Dennis_Knutson]

I know what a PCI-GPIB board is but I don't understand "ines 12.002". In any case, you should have installed the NI-GPIB and NI-VISA drivers that came with either the GPIB board or your version of LabVIEW. The Getting Started wizard will verify the board is working correctly. After that, it's a matter of writing your application with either VISA (recomended) or GPIB commands. If you have a particular instrument that you need to control, go to http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/default.htm and see if a driver already exists for it. There are shipping examples on VISA and GPIB and you should also read chapter 16 of the "LabVIEW Measurements Manual" that is part of the LabVIEW Bookshelf that is available from the Hlpe menu.

[anous]

Thank you Dennis

"ines 12.002" is an ines GPIB board. For a beginning I must just recover 2 voltages and plot a curve.

Before I had a ISA - GPIB board from NI and now I must use another board from INES (German manufacture)

All is ok for the hardware installation but in the manual they say :

1.5.1  LabView Version 6

You need to ensure that the system has access to the INES GPIB-32.DLL. Note that this DLL has the same name as other vendor's version. If you have installed such a GPIB library, you must remove or rename the other vendor's GPIB-32.DLL and make sure the INES version of GPIB-32.DLL is in the \Windows\System directory. Access to the INES GPIB-32.DLL will allow you to use the low level Labview GPIB I/O instructions.

Enabling the VISA drivers to recognise the INES GPIB hardware in Labview 6 requires the following procedure. Labview 6.0i uses a configuration program called "Measurement and Automation Explorer 2.0" or "MAX 2.0". You must use this program to install a NON Plug'N'Play type GPIB interface card from the list of National Instrument GPIB cards.

Select the "AT-GPIB/TNT" model. When you choose the AT-GPIB/TNT card you will be brought into a configuration procedure for the card setup. Accept the default choices.

When done, you will see a GPIB interface installed in the configuration tree of the MAX utility. If you highlight this item and then click "Scan for Devices" the program should detect the devices connected to your GPIB bus and they can now be addressed using the VISA instrument drivers.

can you explain me, please.

I'm verry sorry it's too long.

Thanks

zem

[Dennis_Knutson]

Okay, then I'm assuming that you have a CD with the INES version of GPIB-32.DLL. If you have installed this, then it should have overwritten the version that got installed for the NI board. The rest of the instructions seems pretty straight forward. You can go into MAX and check to see whether you already have NI-VISA installed. There's a section called "Spftware that you can expand to see. From Devices and Interfaces, you can right click and select "Create New" and that is where you would select to install the NON Plug&Play AT-GPIB/TNT board as mentioned in the instructions. I have no idea how well their board will work or whether there are any problems with the instructions. Unless someone in the forum has used this particular board, your best bet for support would be INES.

[anous]

hello

I have always the same problem. When I install the AT-GPIB/TNT board there is always "!"… a problem of IRQ which I can't change. Thus I leave this solution for the moment and I have another question: is it possible to use the serial port of the PC with Labview? I have weak tension from strain gauge?

regards

[Dennis_Knutson]

Yes, you can use LabVIEW with the serial port. Open the example finder and do a search for "serial". I don't remember exactly what examples shipped with your old version but there should be at least one. The api that you should be using is VISA for all serial communication (and GPIB for that matter). I think your version of LabVIEW had the old sersup drivers included but those are now obsolete and no longer supported.

[anous]

So, what is the solution, I can't bye a new version now

[Dennis_Knutson]

The solution to what? You have both VISA and sersup. Use VISA. You don't have to upgrade. Go to the Instrument I/O palette and see what is listed under Serial. If you see functions like VISA Read and VISA Write, that's what should should be using. If you see something called Serial Port Write, that's the old functions and I would recomend you skip those in case you do update one day.

[anous]

hello

I want help for my eternal problem : I always have a "!" in front of my AT-GPIB/TNT. I changed all the IRQs… nothing, however it doesn't have any conflict.

thanks

[Dennis_Knutson]

Since you are not really using an AT-GPIB/TNT board, I don't have any idea what may be the problem. You best hope is to go to the manufacturer and get help.