Nimbus Driver Studio is a complete set of development tools for building fully compliant, commercial-quality IVI.NET, IVI-COM, and IVI-C instrument drivers. The Nimbus suite includes code generation tools, auto-documenting facilities, driver testing utilities, built-in installer generation and a host of other productivity tools. Nimbus fully integrates with Visual Studio to provide end-to-end tool support during driver implementation, with features such as automatic code round-tripping.

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IVI.NET, IVI-COM, and IVI-C Support

Easily produce all three kinds of IVI drivers – IVI.NET, IVI-COM and IVI-C.

Help File Generation

Create complete help file documentation for all elements in your driver and integrate directly with Visual Studio. The Nimbus Driver Designer hosts the same HTML editor you use in Visual Studio for other projects, and allows you to author content that is as rich or as simple as you please. Customizable help templates allow the look, feel, and content of the driver help files to be completely controlled by the driver developer.

Installer Generation

Generate a fully IVI-compliant driver installer with only a few clicks. Nimbus generates WiX source code to facilitate customizing the generated installer. Nimbus even supplies a visual designer for the installer that manages all of the WiX source code manipulations for you.

Unit Test Generation

Maintain a complete suite of C# unit tests that exercises every method and property in the driver. As you add, remove, and edit elements of your driver, Nimbus automatically creates and updates unit tests that integrate directly with the Visual Studio unit testing framework so that the test-debug-edit cycle can be performed seamlessly.

Nimbus Driver Designer - manages all code required to realize the IVI driver

Embedded Code Editors - instantly navigate between items in the designer and the associated implementation and test code

Help Editor - author rich help content for any element in the driver

Setup Designer - graphical interface for managing the driver installer

Visit us at the Pacific MindWorks website to learn more about our IVI instrument driver products and services.

Learn more about IVI instrument driver technology at the IVI Foundation website.