how to use HP GPIB 82350 card with LabWindows CVI

[Gilson Fernandes]

I almost instal Visa Software. But I don´t know how to configure LabWindows to use agilent GPIB interface

[AaronK]

Hi Gilson,
It is hard to say what could be going on here. Have you been able to use your agilent card with VISA at all yet? Once VISA is configured in MAX, you shouldn't have to worry about how accessing it in CVI. You can just use the visa address. Check that it works in VISA interactive control.

If you are missing the libraries, try going to add/remove software and modifying the install options of the VISA install.

Hope this helps out,
Aaron K.
Application Engineer
National Instruments

[Dan_Mondrik]

Gilson:

If you install Agilent VISA and not NI-VISA, then CVI will just use Agilent VISA instead. VISA is an open standard and all VISA implementations support the same API. CVI will not know the difference, nor will it care. If you use Agilent VISA, note that VISAIC will not be on your system (since that is part of NI-VISA) and if MAX is on the system, then Agilent VISA resources will not appear at all. But that is OK and you can still use it from CVI.

If you install NI-VISA and then install Agilent IO Libraries (drivers but not VISA), then you will need to go into MAX, go into the Tools menu and look in NI-VISA Options, and enable the NiVisaTulip Passport. Then you can use VISAIC, as someone previously suggested. You will also (of course) be able to
use the Agilent resources from within CVI.

In either case, configuration of your Agilent GPIB controller must be done from the Agilent configuration utility.

Dan Mondrik
Senior Software Engineer, NI-VISA
National Instruments