How to Join the IDDP
Joining the Instrument Driver Developer Program is easy. To qualify for inclusion in the program, you must create an instrument driver for your instrument, submit it for review to National Instruments (NI), and then provide your instrument driver for download to your customers. NI will then formally recognize your company as a participating member of the IDDP and will certify your instrument driver if it is maintained on the instrument driver network.
Qualifications
Instrument vendors and other developers can qualify for membership in the Instrument Driver Developer Program by creating one of the following:
- LabVIEW Plug and Play instrument driver
- LabWindows/CVI Plug and Play instrument driver with LabVIEW wrappers
- LabWindows/CVI IVI instrument driver with LabVIEW wrappers
National Instruments recommends creating a LabVIEW Plug and Play instrument driver to reach the largest number of instrument control and automation customers. However, if you decide to create a LabWindows/CVI or IVI instrument driver, you should provide LabVIEW wrappers to ensure your customers can easily use your instrument driver in LabVIEW. To join the IDDP, you must create LabVIEW wrappers for LabWindows/CVI and IVI instrument drivers.
Steps to Joining the IDDP
- Contact the National Instruments IDDP team to begin the process. You will also need to fill out an online application after contacting the National Instruments IDDP team.
- You create a LabVIEW instrument driver or LabVIEW wrappers for your LabWindows/CVI or IVI instrument driver.
- You submit your instrument driver to National Instruments for review.
- A National Instruments engineer will review your instrument driver and provide feedback to your developer.
- When your instrument driver meets our requirements National Instruments certifies your instrument driver.
- You indicate whether you would like to include your driver on the Instrument Driver Network for download or if you would like to maintain your instrument driver on an external website. If you instrument driver is included on the IDNet, you will receive a greater set of technical and marketing benefits. For either case you fill out a submission form so that we can include a listing for your instrument driver in the IDNet.
- If you are an Alliance member, your developer receives Certified Instrument Driver Developer status.