Hi everyone! This is my first post here as I'm just starting to learn about LabView at my university and would like some help with a project I'm working on. My general assignment is basically outlined in the post title but I need some help getting a bunch of things set up, and was hoping I could find that here! To start off: Hardware: Rhode & Schwarz HAMEG Arbitrary Generator HMF2525 HO720 USB Cable Software: LabView 2013 NI MAX NI VISA Driver Wizard Windows 7 With my end product, I would like to be able to create and show waveforms along with harmonics and distortions, and to set up the parameters of these waveforms with a LabView Interface. The generator should then output such waveforms and have it shown on this Interface in various ways. The qualities I'd like to show are: Basic Oscillations (eg: sine curve) Harmonic Oscillations of these basic curves Amplitude Frequency Phase Shift The ways I'd like to show them are: Waveform (Voltage) over time Polar/Vector Display of the oscillation parameters A table in which the parameters should be entered in by a user So that's the plan for the project. I'd like some help getting started. I've already installed a driver for the USB Connection using NI-VISA Driver Wizard and can now see the HAMEG HO720 in NI MAX. Is this the right way to go about communicating and getting data from my Generator? I'd like to know if there are any basics I'm missing and how I first go about controlling the generator from my PC by getting it to, for example, produce a sine curve. I've also found a LabView third party driver for the HAMEG here: LabView HAMEG Driver R&S Is this all I will need in terms of drivers for this device and my software? I'd also like to know how to install said driver and what I should expect to see in LabView in terms of function blocks and the like. As I'm new to all this, I'd like to ask a few more questions: Is there any other software I'll be needing which I didn't list above? Are there any important tutorials I should look at to help me through? I've already fone through the getting started modules 1-10 at learnni.com, and am not 100% sure where to go from there. Thank you so much in advance for any help! Josip

Instrument Control (GPIB, Serial, VISA, IVI)

Creating a User Interface to control a HAMEG HMF2525 Arbitrary Generator using LabView

@Dennis_Knutson wrote:
I believe that driver wasn't from NI and was unsupported. I have no idea why it was pulled. You might want to check with free vendor.

Creating your own driver is not that complicated. [...] There are plenty of resources to help you.

Ok, you're right.

A very good way to do it looks like the built-in templates respectively Wizard (new->project-...> Instrument Driver Project). Great! 🙂