Integrating the Commercial Software Package LabVIEW with
Fermilab's Accelerator Control NETwork

W. Blokland
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory^*

An overview is given of the developed interface between the in-house networking protocol ACNET and the commercial available software package for instrumentation control and analysis LabVIEW. The interface supports data reading and writing access by remote consoles over Ethernet and Token Ring networks. In addition, LabVIEW can read and write data of other front-ends by communicating over ethernet with the TCPORT server on a VAX. Tools are provided to help the user develop LabVIEW programs and make entries in the ACNET database. The interface has been used for a variety of applications.


^*Operated by the Universities Research Association Inc., under contract with the U.S. Dept. of Energy.