update labview 6.1 to 8.2 using new DAQ Device

[Steve_AZ]

Hi,

the wind tunnel at our university has been repaired and the old computers with Labview 6.1 (Win98 and incredible 166 MHz) had been replaced by new ones Now Labview 8.2 is running on the new computers. The DAQ Hardware also has changed from PCI-MIO-16XE-50 to PCI-6220. Unfortunately nobody has had the time to change the VIs of the old system for the new system, yet. I want to use Labview 8.2 for my measurements but I dont have much knowledge in Labview. Therefor I wanted to ask if there is a not too difficult way to set the old VIs up with the new system?

Thanks,

Steve

[devchander]

Hi Steve,

ThePCI-6220 is a M series DAQ card and is supported only by DAQmx. It is not supported by the Legacy Traditional DAQ device drivers

Whereas, your PCI-MIO-16XE-50 is supported by both Traditional DAQ and DAQmx device drivers

But if your application was built in LabVIEW 6.1, probably it was built using Traditional DAQ drivers and functions.

Here is two things that you can do

• Install Traditional DAQ device drivers along with LabVIEW 8.2 and work with your Old PCI-MIO-16XE-50 card and old application software. I do not foresee any drastic changes in your application by doing this
• Probably, you will have to rebuild your application program with DAQmx functions so that you can use it with PCI-6220

Here are some links that will help you make the transition for Traditional DAQ to DAQmx

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4342

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3021

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/2835

Any doubts, do ask

Regards,

Dev

[devchander]

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