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The LabVIEW Driver for Arcus Motion Controllers

A LabVIEW driver suite that Arcus Technology released to its customers, so even novice developers can get its USB stepper motors running quickly.

The problem

Arcus Technology makes USB-controlled stepper motors and motion controllers. Its customers who work in LabVIEW needed a dependable way to use every feature of those products without writing low-level communication code themselves.

What we built

A complete LabVIEW driver suite: core VIs for basic communication, higher-level VIs that combine common operations, and a library of examples. It’s designed so that even a novice LabVIEW developer can integrate an Arcus product with little effort.

A utility panel uses every feature the driver exposes, from homing and jogging to speed, acceleration, and digital inputs. It works as a ready-made test tool, and as a starting point for customers’ own applications. Later releases added support for Arcus’s four-axis PMX-4EX-SA controller, with a multi-axis utility panel.

The result

Arcus released the driver to its customers, and its distributors credit it as “the Arcus Technology LabVIEW driver by KOD Integrations.” LabVIEW developers still use it today.

Arcus Technology USB communication control panel with homing, jogging, speed, acceleration, and digital input controls
The utility panel exercises every feature the driver exposes.
LabVIEW palette of Arcus driver functions, including connection, setters, getters, send and receive, and examples
The driver installs as its own LabVIEW palette.