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
