1.1 Critical Items

1.2 Known Limitations

1.3 Enhancements

This version of RTS is able to load an IVI-COM DMM type class compliant driver and perform the following basic measurements:

• AC voltage;
• DC voltage;
• AC current;
• DC current;
• AC frequency;
• AC period;
• Four wires resistance.

In order to use this capability, the instrument driver has to be installed on the test computer, and the Paws project busconfi file has to describe the instrument address like below:

The "IVI Bus" specifies the logical bus controller. This means that this approach allows the user to have in his busconfi a logical "IVI Bus" along with an additional "IEEE-488 Bus" with the same bus name (GPIB0) for the other non-IVI instruments that are physically connected to the same bus controller and have drivers written in macro code.

The RTS runs by default all the IVI-COM code in a different thread and optionally in a different process. This means that the RTS menus are never blocked because a measurement is in progress, this being a frequent consequence of using most CEM drivers. The other advantage of this approach is that the user can configure the apartment model in which he wants his IVI-COM drivers to run. In special cases, when the user believes that the IVI driver corrupts the RTS memory space, he also has the option of running the all the IVI drivers in a different process than wrts.exe.

In order to have access to this configuration, the user has to launch the RTS, unload any already loaded project, then go to Control\Options\RtsPropertyPages\IVIDriverManager and choose the options he needs:

1.4 Problem Reports