LabVIEW VISA Driver for connection with PROFIBUS

Karlsruhe, May 2005 – COMSOFT is proud to introduce the LabVIEW PROFIBUS VISA driver for its new PROFIBUS board DF PROFI II – interesting for all users, especially producers of automation systems, using the graphical development environment LabVIEW with a real-time PROFIBUS-DP connection.

LabVIEW by National Instruments is a widespread graphical test, measurement, control and automation system. It provides the user a multitude of functions for data programming, data analysis and visualization and allows the compilation of a complete test or control system on any platform.

The package including hardware and software is based on the COMSOFT DF PROFI II board, available in PCI, CPCI and PC104+ format. These different formats as well as the real-time VISA driver concept can be integrated in different LabVIEW systems and platform combinations.

An installation in a classical PC system under LabVIEW for Windows is just as possible as in a real-time PXI system under LabVIEW RT, e.g. as a high performance PAC system for time-critical test applications or industrial automation applications.

The PROFIBUS DP process and diagnostic data can be accessed in a simple manner. The board initialization and the data handling are demonstrated in detailed example VIs, which also can be used for the immediate start-up of the PROFIBUS. The easy to understand "Getting started manual" and the detailed VI context help will support the user.

In addition to the standard VI interface, LabVIEW express VIs are available providing a plug and play integration of the PROFIBUS DP process and diagnostic data into the application.