Joe, I am probably displaying my ignorance of scopes here, but is there enough additional features in the Tek scope that it wouldn't be a good idea to use the NI scope card instead? I suppose if the Tek scope is not fully dedicated to your project it would make sense to have a stand alone scope.
I believe an OCX interface is the same as an ActiveX interface, which should be fairly easy to program from LabVIEW. Bruce ------------------------------------------ Bruce Ammons Ammons Engineering www.ammonsengineering.com (810) 687-4288 Phone (810) 687-6202 Fax -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jasniewski, Joe Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Automated test using Tektronix 7000 series. Hello! We are considering replacing aging Tek scopes with the new 7000 series. As you probably know, these new oscilloscopes have an embedded PC running win2K with a GPIB controller. What's nice is through VISA, you can get large length waveforms into LabVIEW PDQ for processing. The demo unit we have also has a serial port and two USB ports. However, I use a NI6713 analog output card in the PC which runs my test VIs. The scope doesn't have a PCI bus card slot. For some of my testing, I load the 6713 with trapezoidal waveforms on a few channels, then generate simultaneous output. On a per bench basis, I really don't want to maintain two OS installations, though I do realize LV could probably "virtually" see the 6713 card from the LV running on the scope, with e-net connections to both boxes. I want a USB 4 or 8 output waveform generator that can do simultaneous output. I found something called a WaveLAB USB http://www.add2.co.uk/wavelab.html but alas, they don't mention anything about LabVIEW. They do say "The WaveLAB OCX enables bespoke applications to be written in Visual Basic". Sounds like a long way from a LabVIEW driver for my skills... Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might solve my problem? I have NI working on it now, but I thought I'd ask here as well. Best Regards, Joe Jasniewski
