What format does a LabVIEW RT Hardware drive need to be in to work in RT

[hollifm]

I am trying to work in a new 3rd party hardware for the pxi. Currently they only have dll's for windows. I know they wont work when used with rt. I need to know what format the driver must be in to work and if there is any examples. I have access to the source for the dll calls so I know the hardware access points.

THank You,

Michael

[JeffBoettcher]

Any register-level programming in RT must be done through NI-VISA register-level calls. There is a document in our NI Developer Zone dedicated to how to use the PXI Driver Development Wizard to develop a simple register-level driver for one of our boards for Windows. The same concepts apply to RT and register-level programming, thereby giving you access to your 3rd party hardware. When following through the document, keep in mind that the INF file created by the PXI Driver Development Wizard must be FTP transferred to the PXI RT side, into the /ni-rt/system folder. Then power-cycle the PXI RT system. You can then use VISA Find Resources to get the device descriptor to your 3rd party device.

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