General Page, IVI-C Driver Settings

Prefix

This setting controls the IVI-C prefix for the driver. This prefix is very important as it controls the name of many items associated with the driver. The driver DLL itself will be named using this prefix. The names of all functions and attributes begin with this prefix. Additionally, the driver install location is governed by the prefix chosen here.

Important
The IVI specifications require that the first two letters of this prefix match the official two-letter abbreviation assigned to the driver vendor by the IVI Foundation in the specification "VPP-9: Instrument Vendor Abbreviations" . If the driver vendor does not have an assigned two-letter prefix, one can be obtained from the IVI Foundation. Visit the IVI Foundation website for details.

Instrument manufacturer

The instrument manufacturer is used to identify the manufacturer of the instrument for which the driver is being written. This entry is used in the IVI Configuration Store registration as well as in the implementation of the INSTRUMENT_MANUFACTURER attribute.

Driver vendor

The driver vendor identifies the company responsible for development and support of the driver. This entry is used in the IVI Configuration Store registration as well as in the implementation of the SPECIFIC_DRIVER_VENDOR attribute.

Description

A description of your driver. This value is used in the implementation of the SPECIFIC_DRIVER_DESCRIPTION attribute.

Copyright

The copyright statement to use for your driver. This value is used in the comments of some source files and in the driver help file.

Version

The 3-digit version number to use for this driver. The value expressed here controls a variety of things, such as the driver DLL version info resource and the driver installer generation. Nimbus will always use a value of 0 for the 4th digit making up the assembly version number.

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