User`s guide

Connecting Instruments to USB

Step 4: Check Instrument Identification

Steps to Check

Identification

Parameters

1 Display the IO Config Main Screen. Click the blue IO icon (on the

Windows Taskbar) and select

Run IO Config to display the IO Config

main screen.

Display the USB Devices Dialog Box. Highlight the USB instrument

name in the

Configured Interfaces box (VISA Name of USB0 and SICL

Name of usb0 for the previous figure). Then, click

Edit... to display the

USB Devices dialog box.

Add/Change/Delete Aliases. You can use the USB Devices dialog box

to change existing USB Alias names or to add or delete Alias names.

Click the

Add Alias box to display the Add Alias dialog box, click the

Edit Alias box to display the Assign USB device alias dialog box, or click

the

Delete Alias box to delete the highlighted alias.

If there is no entry in the Configured

Interfaces

box for USB instruments,

you can highlight

USB *USB

Instruments

and click Configure to

configure the USB interface.

This dialog box allows you to

associate a USB Alias name

with a specific instrument. The

association is based on the

instrument’s Serial Number,

Vendor ID, Product ID, and

Product Identification.

NOTE

! Multiple alias names may be associated with the same instrument.

! If you delete all aliases, you can restore a default alias by

closing

IO Config and cycling power on the instrument.