National Instruments has said that its Instrument Driver Network (IDNet) of instrument drivers and control software includes more than 7,500 instrument drivers for instruments from more than 275 vendors including Tektronix, Agilent Technologies and Rohde & Schwarz.

Users can download LabView Plug and Play, LabWindows/CVI Plug and Play and Interchangeable Virtual Instrument (IVI) instrument drivers certified by the company to control GPIB, PXI, USB, Ethernet and LXI instruments.

There is also driver support for environmental monitoring sensors and wireless sensor networks.

More information: www.ni.com/idnet