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USBTMC class windows device drivers

USBTMC drivers for windows are currently available from National Instruments and the IVI foundation.
If for some reason one of the above drivers can't be used, libusb can also be used with our devices. In that case, it's recommended to install our libusbtmc library along libusb 0.1 on Windows.

Mimimized C example using NI-VISA :

#include <stdio.h>
#include <visa.h>

int main()
{
    ViSession defaultRM, instr;     				            // Virtual Instrument Session
    char meas_result[64] = "";               		            // Result buffer

    viOpenDefaultRM(&defaultRM);				                // Open a default session
    viOpen(defaultRM, 						                    // Open the device by 
           "USB0::0x1781::0x0E93::00006::INSTR", 				// instrument descriptor
           VI_NULL, VI_NULL, &instr);
    viSetAttribute(instr, VI_ATTR_TMO_VALUE, 5000);	            // global time out value
    viWrite(instr, ":meas:xyz", 9, VI_NULL);		            // Send :meas:xyz command
    viRead(instr, meas_result, sizeof(meas_result), VI_NULL);	// Read measurement result
    printf(meas_result);					                    // Print measurement result
    viClose(instr);						                        // Close the device
    viClose(defaultRM);						                    // Close the default session

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

Note : The above code is very minimized. It has no error handling and is purely meant to show that with a few functions results can be received from a USBTMC device.

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