Agilent Technologies Agilent 82350B - Manual (Page 28)

1 Installing and Configuring the 82350B
16 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide
3 Repeat Steps for Other Cards. If you have installed more
than one 82350B in your PC, repeat these steps for the
remaining cards. Then, go to
“Step 5: Communicating with
your instruments“ .
Table 1-1 82350B GPIB interface card configuration parameters
VISA
Interface ID Symbolic name that VISA uses to uniquely identify this GPIB
interface. The default VISA interface ID is GPIB0. The
82350B interface ID for VISA must begin with the string
GPIB and have an integer appended to it, such as GPIB0,
GPIB1, GPIB2, etc. Remember this value to properly address
GPIB devices in your VISA applications.
GPIB
Address Address of this GPIB interface controller on the GPIB bus. It
is usually 21 if the GPIB interface is a System Controller or
20 if the GPIB interface is a non-System Controller (see
System Controller, following). These addresses are chosen
by convention but any address in the range 0 - 30, inclusive,
may be used.
System
Controller Determines if this interface controls which bus devices talk
and which bus devices listen. If several devices exist on a
bus, be sure each has a unique GPIB bus address and only
one device is the System Controller. Each GPIB interface has
its own independent bus. Thus, each interface may be a
System Controller as long as it is not chained together with
other GPIB interfaces. However, two or more System
Controllers on the same bus will cause the bus to be
inoperative.
SICL
Interface ID Symbolic name that SICL uses to uniquely identify this GPIB
interface. The default Interface ID is gpib0. The SICL
interface ID must be a unique string of alphanumeric
characters, starting with a letter. Remember this value and
the logical unit number to properly address GPIB devices in
your SICL applications.
Logical Unit Number that SICL uses to uniquely identify this 82350B
interface. The logical unit number is an integer in the range
of 0 - 10000. Remember this value and the SICL interface ID
to properly address the GPIB interface in your SICL
applications.