universal USB Driver for Labview
Quote:
> There are currently no VI's designed to communicate through USB. The
> reason is this: It is best not to think of USB as a serial port, but
> rather as a bus. It is like asking when there will be a "PCI Read.vi"
> and "PCI Write.vi". The protocol for talking to a USB device is
> specific to each device. You have to open up some channels to the
> device (how many is specific to the device), and then you have to peek
> and poke values over those channels in a device-dependent way. I have
> heard of some users trying to use USB by direct register access or by
> accessing the windows low level USB API, but I don't know how
> successful they were.
But the same is true for TCP/IP etc.Now you mention it: why isn't there a
way to communicate to the PCI bus?
Ferry