The National Instruments team is pleased to announce the availability of NI-VISA version 19.0.0, is the NI implementation of the Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA), a standard for configuring, programming, and troubleshooting instrumentation systems comprising GPIB, VXI, PXI, Serial, Ethernet, and/or USB interfaces.

NI-VISA 19.0.0 - New Features:
- Added support for LabVIEW NXG 3.1.

About NI-VISA. The Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA) is a standard for configuring, programming, and troubleshooting instrumentation systems comprising GPIB, VXI, PXI, Serial, Ethernet, and/or USB interfaces. VISA provides the programming interface between the hardware and development environments such as LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and Measurement Studio for Microsoft Visual Studio. NI-VISA is the National Instruments implementation of the VISA I/O standard.

NI-VISA includes software libraries, interactive utilities such as NI I/O Trace and the VISA Interactive Control, and configuration programs through Measurement & Automation Explorer for all your development needs. NI-VISA is standard across the National Instruments product line. With NI-VISA, you can feel confident that your software development will not become obsolete as your instrumentation interface hardware needs evolve into the future.

Serial communications timeout exception using NI VISA driver with an USB serial adapter.

About National Instruments. Since 1976, National Instruments has equipped engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation and discovery. NI's graphical system design approach to engineering provides an integrated software and hardware platform that speeds the development of any system needing measurement and control. The company's long-term vision and focus on improving society through its technology supports the success of its customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders.

Product: NI-VISA
Version: 19.0.0
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
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System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: *
Size: 1.0 Gb

NI-VISA 19.0 for Windows supports the following platforms:
- Windows 10 x86, x64
- Windows 8.11 x86, x64
- Windows 7 SP1** x86, x64
- Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1** x86, x64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64-bit version only)***
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)*,***
- NI Real-Time VxWorks
- NI Real-Time Phar Lap ETS
- NI Linux Real-Time

While this distribution targets all of these platforms, you can run setup.exe only on the Windows variants.

* NI software installs VC2015 Runtime and .NET 4.6.2. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 require Microsoft updates to support these items. Refer to Microsoft KB2919442 and KB2919355 for more information about how to install these updates.
** NI software is signed with a SHA-256 certificate. Windows 7 SP1, Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 require Microsoft updates to support SHA-256. Refer to Microsoft KB3033929 for more information about how to install this security update.
*** NI-VISA does not support the Windows Server non-R2 editions.