Owning Palette: VISA Advanced VIs and Functions
Requires: Base Development System. This topic might not match its corresponding palette in LabVIEW depending on your operating system, licensed product(s), and target.
Use the Bus/Interface Specific functions to program instruments that are interface specific.
The functions on this palette can return VISA error codes.
| Palette Object | Description |
|---|---|
| VISA Assert Interrupt Signal | Asserts the specified device interrupt or signal. |
| VISA Assert Utility Signal | Asserts or deasserts the specified utility bus signal. |
| VISA Flush I/O Buffer | Flushes the I/O buffer specified by mask. |
| VISA GPIB Command | Writes GPIB command bytes on the bus. |
| VISA GPIB Control ATN | Controls the state of the GPIB ATN interface line and, optionally, the active controller state of the local interface. |
| VISA GPIB Control REN | Asserts or deasserts the GPIB REN interface line according to the specified mode. |
| VISA GPIB Pass Control | Tells the GPIB device at the specified address to become controller-in-charge (CIC). |
| VISA GPIB Send IFC | Pulses the interface clear line (IFC) for at least 100 microseconds. |
| VISA Map Trigger | Maps the specified trigger source line to the specified trigger destination line. |
| VISA Set I/O Buffer Size | Sets the size of the I/O buffer. Run the VISA Configure Serial Port VI first if you are setting the size of a serial port buffer. |
| VISA Unmap Trigger | Unmaps a previous map from the specified trigger source line to the specified trigger destination line. This function unmaps one trigger mapping per call. |
| VISA VXI Cmd or Query | Sends the device a miscellaneous command or query and/or retrieves the response to a previous query. |
| Subpalette | Description |
|---|---|
| Serial VIs and Functions | Use the Serial VIs and functions to access the VISA VIs and functions that communicate with devices connected to a serial port. Additional functions are also available on the VISA palette. |
| VISA USB VI and Functions | Use the VISA USB VI and functions to control USB devices. |