Thanks, but this is where I have run into a monumental *-storm. The software was written in CVI 7 and the controller was an 8176. I purchased a MXI and a Windows 7-32 industrial Rack Mount. I worked with your engineers and got everything installed with legacy drivers and got the application to compile in CVI 2013. This is where the months of sweat equity were flushed down the drain. For some reason the functions written using the drivers from CVI 7 will not function in the CVI 2013 / Windows 7-32 environment. It was recommended to replace the hard drive in the box, start over with Windows 2000, or maybe XP (iffy) and reload everything with Legacy drivers and CVI 7. Then, I might have success, but only at 50 - 50 odds. There was an offer to rewrite the original software, at a high price, to function in the new environment. The production line is at the end of life. In a year or so all will be scrap. There is no profit left to fund the upgrade. I was looking for the start and end dates for each controller family. I was making a recommendation about the future purchases of hardware, obsolescence, and upgrade paths. I managed to track down ballpark dates but am still missing one key element.
If an 8176 were referred to as Gen-1 what Generation is being marketed today ? How far behind is this controller ?
