How Can We Identify the Card# and Core# of the Ballard MIL-STD 1553 in LabVIEW?

• When I use the Ballard MIL-STD-1553 on Windows OS, I cannot find the board in NI MAX. Why is this happening?

• How can I select the Ballard MIL-STD-1553 board in LabVIEW?

The Ballard MIL-STD-1553 does not appear in NI MAX. You need to use BTIXMLEdit.exe to find the board.

When you identify the Card# and Core#, you can use them to select the channel in the LabVIEW program.

To use the LabVIEW sample program for MIL-STD-1553, you need to install the Astronics Ballard Avionics Driver from the NI Package Manager.

You can find sample program under C:\Program Files\NI\LVAddons\ballardinstr64. For exmaple, for version 1.6, you can find the sample in following folder:
C:\Program Files\NI\LVAddons\ballardinstr64\1.6.0.3\examples\Astronics Ballard Technology\BTI1553Lib

Here, for example, when I test with Example - MIL 1553B  BC-RT Loopback with a small modification, I can select the card# and core# by the Initialize By Card Number and Core Number.vi as below.

Next Steps

To use external trigger with the board, please refer to "Can We Start Minor Frame of BC on Ballard MIL STD-1553 by Use of Trigger?".