Tausand_AB1000_LabViewLibrary

Library and examples to use Tausand Abacus AB1000 and AB2000 devices with LabView 2015 or later.

This is a Plug and Play (project-style) library for LabView. To use it:

• Download the library.
• Extract the contents of the .zip file to a subdirectory of <labview>\instr.lib.
• Navigate to and open the .lvproj file. You can browse the examples included in the project to get started taking measurements with your instrument.

Help to use this library is found at National Instrument's tutorial: How to Use an Instrument Driver in LabVIEW Tutorial

About Tausand Abacus AB1000 and AB2000

These are a family of coincidence counters, ideal to measure temporal correlations in particle detection and quantum optics experiments.

To learn more about them, visit our website www.tausand.com

To obtain a Tausand's Abacus coincidence counter, visit our online shop or contact us at sales@tausand.com

Tausand Abacus AB1000 Instrument Driver Readme

1. Overview

Instrument Driver Technology: LabVIEW Plug and Play (project-style)
Manufacturer: Tausand
Supported Language(s): LabVIEW
Supported Model(s): AB1002, AB1004, AB1502, AB1504, AB2002, AB2004, AB2502, AB2504
Model(s) Tested: AB1002, AB1004, AB1502, AB1504, AB2502, AB2504
Interface(s): USB

Driver Revision: 1.5
Original Release Date: 05/16/2019 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Current Revision Date: 10/23/2023

2. Required Software

Some software components need to be installed before using this instrument driver. The minimum versions of these components are listed below, and can be downloaded from the Download Site.

• NI-VISA 15.0.1 or later
• LabVIEW 2015 or later

3. Known Issues

To report issues or provide feedback about this instrument driver, please send an email to support@tausand.com.

4. Revision History

The latest version of this and other Tausand instrument drivers can be downloaded at Tausand downloads website.

• REV 1.0, 05/16/2019
  Created by: David Guzmán, dguzman@tausand.com, Bogota, Colombia.
  Original release.

• REV 1.1, 07/10/2019
  Updated by: David Guzmán, dguzman@tausand.com, Bogota, Colombia.
  Update on Wait for Acquisition Complete VI. Now it returns a warning instead of an error when max timeout is reached.

• REV 1.2, 06/02/2020
  Updated by: David Guzmán, dguzman@tausand.com, Bogota, Colombia.
  New supported models: AB1502, AB1504 (2ns resolution), AB1902 and AB1904 (1ns resolution).

• REV 1.3, 08/15/2022
  Updated by: David Guzmán, dguzman@tausand.com, Bogota, Colombia.
  New supported models: AB2004 (5ns resolution) and AB2504 (2ns resolution).
  New low-level read data functions, to read a limited set of registers in less time.
  Self recovery method on Read Mesurements VI. Now it reconnects device (close/open) when communication fails.

• REV 1.4, 01/18/2023
  Updated by: David Guzmán, dguzman@tausand.com, Bogota, Colombia.
  New supported models: AB2002 (5ns resolution) and AB2502 (2ns resolution).
  New Get Resolution and Get Channels VIs.

• REV 1.5, 10/23/2023
  Updated by: David Guzmán, dguzman@tausand.com, Bogota, Colombia.
  New Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) examples.