[Kikusui4800 IVI-COM Instrument Driver] README

Last Update 02/OCT/2012
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The Kikusui4800 is the IVI-COM instrument driver that complies with the
IVI specifications. The driver can be used with most of ADEs (application
development environment) such as Microsoft Developer studio, Microsoft
Office VBA, National Instruments LabVIEW, etc. as long as the ADE supports
Microsoft COM (Component Object Model) technologies.

Revision History
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3.0.0.32  02/OCT/2012:
Legacy PIA4800 Utilities are now bundled with IVI Driver setup.
Legacy PIA4800 Utilities updated to 2.3.0

2.0.3.31  07/OCT/2010:
Bundled PimDrv.log is updated to Rev#16 (driver dlls are unchanged from prev version)

2.0.3.30  20/MAY/2010:
LockObject/UnlockObject behaviour changed. 64bit support added

2.0.2.29  19/Dec/2007:
Improvement - PIA4850 (USBTMC-USB488 interface) is newly supported.

2.0.0.28  13/Jul/2007:
Bugfix      - LockObject()/UnlockObject() were implemented using VISA lock. 
              They now use critical section.

2.0.0.26  04/Aug/2005:
Bugfix      - Scan Utility could not find any active nodes when RS232 is used.

2.0.0.25  20/Jul/2005:
Bugfix      - State Cache operation had handle leak problem.

2.0.0.24  29/May/2005:
Improvement - When one or more power supply channels could not be recognised 
              through the TP-BUS upon Initialize() function call, the driver did 
              not raise any errors.
	    - Collaborate with IVI-COM driver

1.1.0.23  09/Dec/2004:
Bugfix      - Initialize() did not invalidate state cache.
Improvement - Excludes non-existing nodes/channels in Outputs collection.
Improvement - Example programs revised.
Improvement - PWR support added.

1.0.1.0    10/Oct/2003 update
Improvement - .NET primary interop assemblies added
Improvement - Example programs for VB6/VB.NET/C# added
Bugfix - (IIviDCPwrOutputs.Name property did not return correct string.)

1.0.0.18   16/Sep/2003 the first release


IVI Compliance Info
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IVI Compliance Category:
IVI-COM IviDCPwr Specific Instrument Driver
Class Specification Version: 2.0
Group Capabilities Supported:

Base				= Supported
Trigger 			= Unsupported

Optional Features:
Interchangeability Checking	= False
State Caching			= True
Coercion Recording		= False

Driver Specification:
Driver Revision:		3.0.0
Driver Vendor:			Kikusui

Component Identifier:		Kikusui4800
Description:			Power Supply Controller

Hardware Information:
Instrument Manufacturer:	Kikusui
Supported Instrument Models:	PIA4810,PIA4830,PIA4850
Supported Bus Interface:	GPIB, Serial, USB

32-bit Software Information:
Support Operating Systems:     XP(x86), Vista(x86), 7(x86), 8(x86)
VISA Library             :     VISA Library of SPEC 5.0
IVI Shared Components    :     IVI Shared Components 2.0
IVI Engine               :     NI IVI Compliance Package 4.1 (IVI-C only)
Source Code Availability :     Not available

64-bit Software Information:
Support Operating Systems:     Vista(x64), 7(x64), 8(x64)
VISA Library             :     VISA Library of SPEC 5.0
IVI Shared Components    :     IVI Shared Components 2.0
IVI Engine               :     NI IVI Compliance Package 4.1 (IVI-C only)
Source Code Availability :     Not available


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