Vishay Micro-Measurements
System 7000 Programmer’s Reference Manual
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5 LABVIEW INSTRUMENT DRIVER
5.1 Overview
LabVIEW is a graphical programming language developed by National Instruments. It is a language
especially designed for the design, control, and test applications industry. From the National Instruments
web site, “an instrument driver is a set of software routines that control a programmable instrument. Each
routine corresponds to a programmatic operation such as configuring, reading from, writing to, and
triggering the instrument. Instrument drivers simplify instrument control and reduce test program
development time by eliminating the need to learn the programming protocol for each instrument.”
If you are experienced with LabVIEW but are not familiar with the format and use of instrument drivers,
please refer to the National Instruments web site. There are several online documents and tutorials
demonstrating how to use instrument drivers.
5.2 System 7000 Instrument Driver
The System 7000 instrument driver is fully compliant with the National Instruments May 2006
“Instrument Driver Guidelines”. As such, each VI is fully self-documented and that documentation will
not be repeated in this manual. Refer to the context help (and front panel and block diagram
documentation) for each VI.
5.2.1 System 7000 Instrument Driver Layout
The following VI Tree (included in the instrument driver project) shows the layout of the instrument
driver.