Owning Palette: Instrument I/O 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 VISA VIs and functions to program instruments using VISA.
The VIs and functions on this palette can return VISA error codes.
| Palette Object | Description |
|---|---|
| VISA Assert Trigger | Asserts a software or hardware trigger, depending on the interface type. For software triggers, Default (0) is the only valid protocol. For VXI hardware triggers, Default (0) is equivalent to Sync (5). For PXI triggers, PXI: Reserve (6) and PXI: Unreserve (7) are the only valid protocols. |
| VISA Clear | Clears the input and output buffers of the device. |
| VISA Read | Reads the specified number of bytes from the device or interface specified by VISA resource name and returns the data in read buffer. |
| VISA Read STB | Reads a service request status byte byte from the message-based device specified by VISA resource name. |
| VISA Write | Writes the data from write buffer to the device or interface specified by VISA resource name. |
| Subpalette | Description |
|---|---|
| VISA Advanced VIs and Functions | Use the VISA Advanced VIs and functions to accomplish advanced VISA tasks. |