Benefits of LabVIEW Instrument Drivers to Your Customers
LabVIEW is the industry standard for instrument connectivity. With a LabVIEW instrument driver, your customers benefit from the following:
- Versatility with a robust, high quality instrument driver that includes a complete set of functions
- Certification and support by National Instruments
- Multiple platform support
- LabVIEW instrument drivers and code transfers across Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Sun Solaris platforms
- Complete flexibility for the user
- Instrument driver source code is easily accessible
In addition, by developing LabVIEW instrument drivers, your customers can leverage software technologies that are already included with the LabVIEW development environment, including:
- Analysis
- Perform powerful analysis like Fast Fourier transform, power spectrum, frequency response, digital signal processing, and more
- Control, simulate, and design using specialized toolkits
- Presentation
- Control instruments remotely over the internet instantly
- Publish web reports
- Generate Microsoft Office reports
- Connect to databases
User Solutions
The following user solutions show how some customers are using and developing LabVIEW instrument drivers today:
Production Management and Quality Testing System Manages Distributed Manufacturing of Telecommunication Boards
The availability of instrument drivers, ease of integration of native code modules, along with support for serial, GPIB, and Ethernet communication made it a natural choice to write the test case modules in LabVIEW."
Creating Power Acquisition Network (PAQ Net) with LabVIEW
"Users can connect to these nodes from anywhere in the world through connection to the Internet or an intranet. To add power analyzers from any vendor to PAQ Net, the instrument must have an instrument driver and an Ethernet or modem connection to the Internet."
LabVIEW Creates a High-Throughput Liquid Handling System
"We achieved serial control of the pump controller using NI MAX to configure the COM1 port of the PC, and then by using NI-VISA drivers and resource names to quickly and easily implement a LabVIEW driver capable of executing the full command set of the instrument."