Instrument Driver Examples
This section shows you how to create an IVI driver. The following examples are designed to serve as models for instrument driver development.
- Example 1—Creating driver files with the Instrument Driver Development Wizard
- Example 2—Editing instrument driver attributes
- Example 3—Editing high-level instrument driver functions
- Example 4—Adding new attributes and functions
- Example 5—Creating the instrument driver documentation
- Example 6—Modifying an existing IVI driver to work with a new instrument
Examples 1 through 5 build on each other. Together, they illustrate all the steps to create a complete IVI driver. These examples use the Fluke 45 Digital Multimeter—a GPIB message-based device. For simplicity, these examples implement only a subset of the capabilities of the Fluke 45. The examples show how to create the following functions and attributes:
- All the functions that IVI and VXIplug&play require
- The FL45_Fetch function
- The FL45_ConfigureHold function
- The attributes for the measurement function, hold enable, and hold threshold
You do not always have to start with the procedure that Example 1 illustrates. In many cases, you can modify an existing driver for a similar instrument. Example 6 shows how to use the wizard to generate new instrument driver files from an existing driver.