《labview的USB开发指南》.pdf

USB Instrument Control Tutorial Overview This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with a USB device. It is not intended as a starting point for learning about USB architecture or the various protocols used in USB communication. After reading this tutorial, you should be able to install a USB device and use NI-VISA to communicate with that device, as long as you understand the device communication protocol. 1. USB and VISA Background VISA is a high-level API used to communicate with instrumentation buses. It is platform independent, bus independent, and environment independent. In other words, the same API is used regardless of whether a program is created to communicate with a USB device with LabVIEW on a machine running Windows 2000 or with a GPIB device with C on a machine running Mac OS X. USB is a message-based communication bus. This means a PC and a USB device communicate by sending commands and data over the bus as text or binary data. Each USB device has its own command set. You can use NI-VISA Read and Write functions to send these commands to an instrument and read the response from an instrument. Check with your instrument manufacturer for a list of valid commands for your instrument. Starting with version 3.0, NI-VISA supports USB communication. Two classes of VISA resources are supported: USB INSTR and USB RAW. USB devices that conform to the USB Test and Measurement Class (USBTMC) protocol use the USB INSTR resource class. USBTMC devices conform to a protocol that the VISA USB INSTR resource class can understand. No configuration is necessary to communicate with a USBTMC device. To communicate with a USBTMC instrument, refer to section 3. For more information about the USBTMC specification, refer to the USB Implementers Forum Web page linked below. USB RAW instruments are any USB instrument other than those instruments that specifically conform to the USBTMC specification. If you are using a US