Driver Development

With the increasing trend towards test system automation, the need to communicate with a wide variety of instruments and bespoke products has never been so high. Driven by the desire to reduce costs and save time, customers will actively seek out hardware which is supplied with a full complement of drivers, be they for the National Instruments suite of software products (LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI) or industry standard IVI drivers. The use of drivers allows the end customer to reuse current test harnesses with new products. In addition, the test systems can be “future proofed” to an extent, allowing new products to be added simply by developing new drivers.

If you are an instrument manufacturer who is looking to make their hardware more attractive to potential customers or a company trying to put together their own bespoke test system then Product Technology Partners (PTP) can help you with your driver development. Drivers can now be written and tested quicker than ever before providing everyone in the chain with a quick and cost effective way of achieving communication. Even IVI drivers can be built relatively easily, utilising wizards that create the skeleton code and structure which can then be characterised to suit your own particular needs. PTP can write drivers for practically any hardware in virtually any language and, being a Member of the National Instrument Alliance Program, we have the experience and the skills to get your LabVIEW / LabWindows drivers approved quickly and efficiently.

Recent projects

• Complete design, implementation and test of LabWindows/CVI developed instrument drivers to allow LabVIEW and LabWindows customers to fully utilise their instrument programming abilities.
• Design and implementation of a number of IVI drivers for new instruments, enabling their use in a wide range of development environments.
• Driver development for power supplies, function generators, bespoke test equipment, control systems and remote communication applications.