Agilent Technologies E5810A - Manual (Page 68)

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Installing the E5810A
Installing and Configuring Agilent IO Libraries Suite
Verifying Communication From Your PC
This section gives guidelines to communicate with and to program
connected GPIB and RS-232 instruments from your PC via the E5810,
including:
„ Using Interactive IO for Communication
„ Using Supported Programming Languages
Using Interactive IO
for Communication
After the E5810 has been configured and you have connected your GPIB
and/or RS-232 instruments to the E5810, you can verify communication
between your PC and the instruments by using the Interactive IO utility or by
using VISA or SICL commands with supported programming languages.
This section shows one way to use Interactive IO to verify instrument
communication.
Example: Using
Interactive IO
To use Interactive IO to send a *IDN? (identification) query to an instrument:
1 Select the instrument by clicking its icon in the Connection Expert
explorer view.
2 Right-click the instrument and click Send Commands To This Instrument
to display the Interactive IO window. For information on Interactive IO,
including a list of common commands and their meanings, click
Help |
Help Topics .
NOTE
You can also communicate with (but not program) installed GPIB and/or
RS-232 instruments using the E5810 Web access, whether or not you
have installed and configured the Agilent IO Libraries Suite. See
Chapter
3 , “Using E5810A Web Access” for details.
NOTE
Once your remote interface(s) and instrument(s) have been configured in
Connection Expert, if you can see them in the Connection Expert explorer
and see their IDN string information in the detail pane then
communication has been verified. Interactive IO allows you to manually
verify communication and send specific commands to your instrument.