Ivi Shared Components Installation (Windows Only); Instrument Driver Installation - VTI Instruments EX1401 User Manual

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so that the application software developed for one can be easily migrated to the other. The drivers
are compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. In general, the API descriptions in
this document apply to both the Windows and Linux drivers unless otherwise specified.
To control the EX1401 series instruments programmatically (via a user generated program or
through tools such as Agilent VEE®, NI LabVIEW®, Mathworks Matlab®, etc.), two additional
components must be installed: the IVI Shared Components library (for Windows OS only) or the
VTI Common Library (for Linux OS only) and the provided VTI Instruments driver. For 32-bit
Windows OS, install the 32-bit driver. For Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit), and Windows
10 (64-bit), the 64-bit driver installer includes both 64-bit and 32-bit compatible drivers. These
drivers are
(www.vtiinstruments.com), in the respective product page, under download tab. The following
sections describe installing the required software.

IVI Shared Components Installation (Windows Only)

If this component was installed during a previous LXI instrument installation, please proceed to
Instrument Driver Installation. First, close all other open programs, leaving only Windows Explorer
open. Navigate to the <CD-ROM Drive>:\EX Platform Requisites directory on the CD
and run the IVISharedComponentsX.X.X.exe program. Next, follow the on-screen
instructions. Do not proceed to the next step until this installation completes successfully. If
instructed to reboot the PC, it will be necessary to do so at that time. Alternatively, the latest IVI
shared components can be downloaded and installed from IVI Foundation Web page,
www.ivifoundation.org.

Instrument Driver Installation

If the VTEXDigitizer instrument driver was installed previously on the host PC, you may skip this
step of the installation process, and proceed to
The previously installed driver may need to be updated to the most recently released version to
support the EX1401. To install the VTEXDigitizer instrument driver, navigate to <CD-ROM
Drive>:\Drivers\LXI Drivers\EX Series, on the CD, open the appropriate zip file in
this directory, and then run the .msi installer. Alternately the drivers are available for free
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