[Questions about AD3/AD2 and VirtualBench]

Can I control AD2 or AD3 with VirtualBench's LabVIEW toolkit？

[About ADP5250 using drive API to output voltage]

@attilaBut in the C driver, they initialize differently.

Virtualbench.h：

NIVB_LIBRARY_VERSION 302039040

niVB_Status NIVB_DECL niVB_Initialize(uint32_t version, niVB_LibraryHandle* handle);

dwf.h：

DWFAPI int FDwfDeviceOpen(int idxDevice, HDWF *phdwf);

So，they’re different.

How can I call ADP using virtualbench. H？

 

[About ADP5250 using drive API to output voltage]

NI has a digilent toolkit that can be used in LabVIEW，I know this，But my job is to write tests in C.

I understand that since labView's toolkit for Digilent uses the VirtualBench API, there must be a way to call it in C

[About ADP5250 using drive API to output voltage]

@attilaThank you so much，This solved my existing confusion.

And I have one more question，In simple terms,I want to use the VirtualBench driver to drive the ADP 5250 directly. Can I do some work on the VIRTUalBench C code base so that it can call ADP5250？

[About ADP5250 using drive API to output voltage]

@attilasry,Because the ADP channel 0 and 1 corresponding to the two channel + 6 and + 25, so I can make it 1 v output, but the sample doesn't make 1 v channel output.

[About ADP5250 using drive API to output voltage]

Hi.@ According to my understanding, this example did not output voltage at positions 1, 2, and 3, but only enable the supply channel, so I added voltage output later，When I used AD2, I ran my modified example, channel 0 and channel 1 could output voltage of 1 and -1，When I used ADP，channel 0 and channel 1 cannot output voltage of 1 and -1.

[About ADP5250 using drive API to output voltage]

@attilaI have AD2 and ADP, and I use AD2 to run the program "Analogio_AnalogDISCOVERy2_power. CPP", which can output voltage, but there is no voltage output when I use ADP5250, is there any explanation for this phenomenon

[About the Waveforms，I hope an engineer can answer my questions]

In simple terms,I want to use the VirtualBench driver to drive the ADP 5250 directly. Does this require any work in the VirtualBench.h driver file.

[About the Waveforms，I hope an engineer can answer my questions]

Hi @JColvin，Thank you very much。Uh，I actually wanted to write my test program in C#, but digilent's driver API prevented me from finding the instrument function quickly, while VirtualBench's driver allowed me to find the instrument function quickly

[About the Waveforms，I hope an engineer can answer my questions]

@JColvin    

In fact, VB drivers are called differently from Digilent instruments.

Although there is no official support, I would like to know how this call method is compatible.

[About the Waveforms，I hope an engineer can answer my questions]

@JColvinThank you for your answer, but I still have a few questions

[About the Waveforms，I hope an engineer can answer my questions]

On 4/19/2022 at 6:51 AM, JColvin said:

Hi @Kou,

My understanding is that there has not been any direct work on Digilent's end to get the ADP5250 working with the VirtualBench API or VIs; the ADP5250 is a VB-8012 (with the WiFi adapter disabled) so I imagine a lot of the functionality may work, but again I don't think any LabVIEW compatibility has been prioritized.

Thanks,
JColvin

But I don't want to use the API in the DAF.h file. I know about Virtualbench drivers and I'm familiar with them. So far I think the difference between them is that their initialization steps are different, so just know how to successfully initialize and call the program

[About the Waveforms，I hope an engineer can answer my questions]

I read that ADP5250 supports VirtualBench drivers，but I didn't actually find any VirtualBench drivers in the dwf.h  header file.

And I see in LabVIEW's WaveForm toolkit that the REFERENCED API is indeed the VirtualBench API .

Attached is the content in LabVIEW toolkit.