Agilent Technologies 6631B - Manual (Page 9)

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Introduction to Programming
VXI plug&play Power Products Instrument Drivers
VXI plug&play instrument drivers for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT are now available on the
Web at http://www.agilent.com/find/drivers. These instrument drivers provide a high-level programming
interface to your Agilent Technologies instrument. VXI
plug&play instrument drivers are an alternative to
programming your instrument with SCPI command strings. Because the instrument driver’s function
calls work together on top of the VISA I/O library, a single instrument driver can be used with multiple
application environments.
Supported Applications
ñ
Agilent VEE
ñ Microsoft Visual BASIC
ñ Microsoft Visual C/C++
ñ
Borland C/C++
ñ
National Instruments LabVIEW
ñ
National Instruments LabWindows/CVI
System Requirements
The VXI plug&play Power Products instrument driver complies with the following:
ñ Microsoft Windows 95
ñ Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
ñ
HP VISA revision F.01.02
ñ National Instruments VISA 1.1
Downloading and Installing the Driver
NOTE: Before installing the VXIplug&play instrument driver, make sure that you have one of the
supported applications installed and running on your computer.
1. Access Agilent Technologies’ Web site at http://www.agilent.com/find/drivers.
2. Select the instrument for which you need the driver.
3. Click on the driver, either Windows 95 or Windows NT, and download the executable file to your
pc.
4. Locate the file that you downloaded from the Web. From the Start menu select Run
<path>:\agxxxx.exe - where <path> is the directory path where the file is located, and agxxxx is
the instrument driver that you downloaded .
5. Follow the directions on the screen to install the software. The default installation selections will
work in most cases. The readme.txt file contains product updates or corrections that are not
documented in the on-line help. If you decide to install this file, use any text editor to open and
read it.