Building and using custom vis – EXFO FTB-500 User Manual

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Using FTB Products in an Automated Test Environment

FTB-500

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Building and Using Custom VIs

Building and Using Custom VIs

EXFO LabVIEW drivers have been designed to let you control the various
instruments according to your needs, by building your own VIs in LabVIEW.

You can access EXFO drivers

directly from
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 6\instr.lib\EXFO

from the LabVIEW function palettes

Each icon of the EXFO palette corresponds to a set of drivers that allow you
to either

communicate with EXFO instruments that support remote control

open and close communication links with instruments

send IEEE 488.2 (common) commands

send platform commands (specific to FTB-500 unit)

To send

IEEE 488.2

commands

To send platform
commands

To open and close
communication link

To control EXFO instruments
(one icon per instrument)

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