Download driver Silicon Labs CDC Serial Port Drivers version 6.1.7601.17518 for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64). Open the Device Manager by right clicking 'My computer' and selecting control panel. Look under Ports (COM & LPT). You should see an open port named 'USB Serial Port' Right click on the 'USB Serial Port' and choose the 'Update Driver Software' option. Next, choose the 'Browse my computer for Driver software' option.
LabVIEW is able to interface to many hardware items for control and monitoring.
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LabVIEW is able to control devices and also receive responses from them. To achieve this, an interface is required enabling LabVIEW to connect to the device or instrument.
These interfaces are called LabVIEW drivers and there is an extensive library of these drivers that are available within the LabVIEW ecosystem.
Instrument drivers: the basics
An instrument driver provides the interface between the core LabVIEW software and the instrument or device that it needs to control or receive data from.
The LabVIEW instrument driver is essentially a set of software routines that enable data to be sent to an instrument or device and data received from it.
Within the overall driver there are individual sub-routines that enable various tasks to be performed. These include: configuring the device, reading from, writing to, and triggering the device or instrument. Instrument drivers simplify instrument control and reduce LabVIEW program development time by eliminating the need to learn the programming protocol for each instrument.
The LabVIEW driver takes the commands from LabVIEW and then converts them into the instructions required for that device, sending them over the relevant interface whether it be USB, serial, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, GPIB or any other interface applicable for that device.
LabVIEW drivers are developed for a host of differnet instruments. Some are developed by National Instruments, the company that develops and owns LabVIEW, but other drivers may be developed by third parties – possibly the manufacturers of the devices. Some LabVIEW drivers may incorporate all the remote controls applicable to the device and over a variety of interfaces applicable to the device. Others may have a limited set of instructions or capabilities. Additionally many are available free of charge, but for others there may be costs associated with them. It depends upon the devices, the manufacturers and the developers of the code. However most of them are available within the LabVIEW ecosystem without additional charge.
Overall LabVIEW provides extensive support for interfacing to devices using LabVIEW drivers. These instrument drivers may be written in a variety of ways: LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI and they use either Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture, VISA, or the Interchangeable Virtual Instrument, IVI, protocol.
LabVIEW driver availability
National Instruments makes thousands of device drivers available for download on the NI Instrument Driver Network, IDNet or directly from within LabVIEW.
Additionally many equipment manufacturers may also make drivers available via portals on their own sites. With many companies and organizations using LabVIEW, it pays these device and instrument manufacturers to make LabVIEW drivers available to increase the competitiveness of their products.
Using a LabVIEW Instrument Driver
Within LabVIEW and instrument driver is made up from a set of VIs, or Virtual Instruments. Each VI corresponds to a particular operation like configuring, reading, writing or triggering an instrument or device. By using this approach the programming of instruments or devices is considerably simplified as it overcomes the issue of programming in a low level language.
There are two main ways of finding and downloading pre-prepared LabVIEW drivers from within the NI LabVIEW ecosystem:
- NI Instrument Driver Finder: This method can be used on LabVIEW 8.0 or later. Select Tools » Instrumentation » Find Instrument Drivers to launch the Instrument Driver Finder. This tool searches IDNet to find the specified instrument driver.
- IDNet: For older versions of LabVIEW, prior to V 8.0 then it is necessary to directly search IDNet.
There is a huge variety of different LabVIEW instrument drivers providing the interface between LabVIEW and the peripheral hardware devices and instruments. These are a central element of the overall LabVIEW ecosystem and provide an easy method of controlling instruments and accessing data from them or from remote devices.
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UZB is the smallest Z-Wave USB stick in the market.
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This USB stick connects a PC or any other computing platform with USB interface to a wireless Z-Wave network. A controller software compatible to the Silicon Labs Z-Wave Serial API (for example Z-Way) is required to use the functions of the device. This software plus this UZB realise a static controller to manage and use Z-Wave devices of various vendors. This stick works with all certified Z-Wave devices regardless of its vendor or date of origin. The Silicon Labs Z-Wave Serial API specification is available to all owners of a Silicon Labs Z-Wave SDK.
Additionally many equipment manufacturers may also make drivers available via portals on their own sites. With many companies and organizations using LabVIEW, it pays these device and instrument manufacturers to make LabVIEW drivers available to increase the competitiveness of their products.
Using a LabVIEW Instrument Driver
Within LabVIEW and instrument driver is made up from a set of VIs, or Virtual Instruments. Each VI corresponds to a particular operation like configuring, reading, writing or triggering an instrument or device. By using this approach the programming of instruments or devices is considerably simplified as it overcomes the issue of programming in a low level language.
There are two main ways of finding and downloading pre-prepared LabVIEW drivers from within the NI LabVIEW ecosystem:
- NI Instrument Driver Finder: This method can be used on LabVIEW 8.0 or later. Select Tools » Instrumentation » Find Instrument Drivers to launch the Instrument Driver Finder. This tool searches IDNet to find the specified instrument driver.
- IDNet: For older versions of LabVIEW, prior to V 8.0 then it is necessary to directly search IDNet.
There is a huge variety of different LabVIEW instrument drivers providing the interface between LabVIEW and the peripheral hardware devices and instruments. These are a central element of the overall LabVIEW ecosystem and provide an easy method of controlling instruments and accessing data from them or from remote devices.
More Test Topics:
Data network analyzerDigital MultimeterFrequency counterOscilloscopeSignal generatorsSpectrum analyzerLCR meterDip meter, GDOLogic analyzerRF power meterRF signal generatorLogic probePAT testing & testersTime domain reflectometerVector network analyzerPXIGPIB Boundary scan / JTAG
Return to Test menu . . .
UZB is the smallest Z-Wave USB stick in the market.
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This USB stick connects a PC or any other computing platform with USB interface to a wireless Z-Wave network. A controller software compatible to the Silicon Labs Z-Wave Serial API (for example Z-Way) is required to use the functions of the device. This software plus this UZB realise a static controller to manage and use Z-Wave devices of various vendors. This stick works with all certified Z-Wave devices regardless of its vendor or date of origin. The Silicon Labs Z-Wave Serial API specification is available to all owners of a Silicon Labs Z-Wave SDK.
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The device implements a virtual serial interface used by the Z-Wave application. Linux and Mac OSX has a built in device driver for the stick and will create a new device named like /dev/ttyACM0 (Linux) or /dev/cu.usbmodemfa131 (OSX). Windows enumerates a new COM port device but might require a device driver uzb.inf available below.
UZB supports Z-Wave Security S2 and Smart Start technologies.
Compared to the standard firmware design used by almost all Z-Wave USB Sticks and other Z-Wave Host Interface hardware, the UZB firmware offers several extensions and enhancements:
- Backup and recovery function including network topology
- Optimised transmitting queue handling to speed up transmitting process
- Firmware update from the OS level in the field
- Trusted Platform module applying strong encryption
- Extended Wakeup Notification to extend battery life time of battery-operated devices in the network
- Advanced statistics about network actual usage
- Allows switching frequencies from software
UZB can be used together with Z-Way software (a license might be required) or any other third party software that uses Z-Wave Serial API. There are firmwares for static controller (for Z-Way and most of third party software) or bridge (for Z/IP). UZB supports firmware upgrade feature.
The UZB comes in three different versions depending on the transmitting frequency used:
- ZMEEUZB: Version for all frequencies around 868 MHz (EU, Russia, India, China — default is EU).
- ZMEAUZB: Version for all frequencies around 921 MHz (Australia, Brasil, Japan, Korea — default is Australia/Brasil)
- ZMEUUZB: Version for all frequencies around 908 MHz (USA, Israel — default is USA)
Please check what frequency range you need. You may need to change the frequency within the frequency group using a shell script tool or Z-Way. For more information about technical data an the different operating frequencies please refer to the UZB manual.
