Hi,
we are currently reworking legacy-applications which exclusively rely on GPIB and we are considering to use VISA
in the future within a common application (C#, Java, C++ ...). Regarding the licensing, i have the following questions:
a) Is it still possible to use VISA in conjunction with NI-hardware (GPIB-Card etc ..) without buying an extra license ?
From this thread it seems one could use VISA for "free" as long it is used to with NI-hardware
b) Assume a workstation is equipmed with another vendor's GPIB-Card. Is NI-VISA able to deal with a GPIB-Card which was not produced by NI ? If so, I suppose we would a need a license for each productive environment.
Regards,
TestcellGuy