Using Pickering Drivers in National Instruments LabVIEW™

Most Pickering drivers include a LabVIEW™ wrapper to permit full operation of the Pickering switching modules from the LabVIEW environment. These wrappers are normally installed to the current LabVIEW folder system during installation of the Pickering driver. Take a look at our video: Operating Pickering Switching Modules using LabVIEW

The process of controlling a Pickering product normally consists of the following steps:

  1. Open a control session on the product
  2. Use functions in the library to operate the product
  3. Close the control session

In the case of LXI products there is an additional step to establish a communication session on the remote LXI device prior to opening the control session on the hardware. This communication session should also be terminated when no longer required.

The LabVIEW libraries are wrappers of the underlying low level driver and full details of the functions can be found in the corresponding low level driver documentation. Please look below for a list of simple examples using the most common Pickering drivers. In all examples, the program opens a card, obtains it's card identity, operates a single switch and then closes the card. Downloads and documentation is provided with each example.


PXI VISA Driver - pipx40

Example of PIPX40 VISA

PXI Direct IO Driver - pilpxi

Example of pilpxi direct IO

IVI Driver - pi40iv

Example of pi40iv IVI driver

LXI Direct IO Driver - piplx (and picmlx)

Example of piplx and picmlx LXI direct IO
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