There are two situations when you will want to have IVI driver support on your Real-Time target/controller: to control an NI piece of hardware outside of NI software and to control a 3rd party piece of hardware via LabVIEW or other software. Allowing NI hardware to be controlled by non-NI software via the IVI driver is feasible, but controlling 3rd party hardware with IVI driver support is not a tested configuration on NI Real-Time Controllers.
IVI Driver for NI Hardware
The IVI Compliance Package is installed automatically on your Real-Time target/controller whenever you install any NI Modular Instruments driver, such as
NI-DMM,
NI Switch,
NI-DCPower,
NI-HSDIO,
NI-435X. This will allow you to control the corresponding hardware via the IVI driver instead of from the NI driver.
IVI Driver for 3rd Party Hardware
NI has not tested installing IVI drivers for 3rd party instruments on an NI Real-Time controller. It is suggested that you communicate with your device through other means such as NI-VISA, NI-Serial, NI-GPIB, etc...
Additional Information
To get the IVI Compliance Package on your Windows machine, you will need to
download and install the IVI Compliance Package from the download page.