LabVIEW Virtual Instrument Drivers

Software & Drivers
LabVIEW Virtual Instrument Drivers

LabVIEW Virtual Instrument Drivers

LabVIEW is a software program developed by National Instruments for the monitoring and control of instruments in engineering and research applications. Alicat has developed several virtual instrument (VI) drivers for easy integration of our flow and pressure instruments with LabVIEW.

If you do not have LabVIEW, you can download a stand-alone interface that runs on the free LabVIEW 2014 Run-Time Engine. This interface is also available without the Run-Time Engine if you have it installed already.

The National Instruments website has an extensive LabVIEW 2014 user manual for those who need help learning how to use and configure LabVIEW.

Download Alicat’s LabVIEW Drivers User Guide.

LabVIEW Drivers for Most Alicat Instruments

Last updated 4/12/2016. See changelog.

If you have LabVIEW, download the driver below for LabVIEW 2014. If you need a copy of the Alicat driver library for an older version of LabVIEW, please contact us at info@alicat.com.

LabVIEW 2014 Driver Library for Alicat Instruments (v2) Zip file (9.1 MB), includes below driver interface as example program (.vi)
LabVIEW 2010-compatible Driver Library for Alicat Instruments (v2) Zip file (6.8 MB), includes integrated drivers (.vi)
LabVIEW 8.0-compatible Driver Library for Alicat Instruments (v2) Zip file (7.4 MB), includes integrated drivers (.vi)

If you don’t have LabVIEW, click the link below to download Alicat’s device interface. This download contains an installer for the free 2014 LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, along with a device interface for communicating with Alicat devices over RS-232/485.

Stand-Alone Interface for Alicat Instruments Zip file (396 MB)

If you already have the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, click the link below to download just the stand-alone executable files (.exe, requires LabVIEW RTE 2014).

LabVIEW Driver Interface for Alicat Instruments Zip file (1.6 MB)
LabVIEW Serial Terminal and Address Dump Application Zip file (585 KB)
(Requires installation of Stand-Alone Interface above.)

LabVIEW Drivers for Alicat BASIS Mass Flow Controllers

Last updated 1/15/2018. See changelog.

If you have LabVIEW, download the driver below for LabVIEW 2014. If you need a copy of the Alicat BASIS driver library for an older version of LabVIEW, please contact us at info@alicat.com.

LabVIEW 2014 Driver Library for BASIS Units Zip file (10.5 MB), includes below driver interface as example program (.vi)

If you don’t have LabVIEW, click the link below to download Alicat’s stand-alone interface. This download contains an installer for the free 2014 LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, along with a multiple-device interface for communicating with BASIS devices over RS-232/485.

Stand-Alone Interface for BASIS Units Zip file (420 MB)

If you already have the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, click the link below to download just the multiple-device interface as an executable program (.exe, requires LabVIEW RTE 2014).