User`s guide

3- 10 Agilent B1500 User’s Guide, Edition 7
Installation
Inspection and Installation
To Enable System Controller
To allow Agilent B1500A/EasyEXPERT to control external GPIB devices, perform
the following procedure.
1. If the EasyEXPERT software is running, terminate it as shown below:
a. Select the menu function File > Exit on the EasyEXPER
T main screen.
b. Click [x] at the upper right corner of the Start EasyEXPERT button.
2. Select All Programs >
Agilent IO Libraries Suite > Agilent Connection Expert
from the Start menu. Agilent Connection Expert window appears.
3. At the Instrument I/O on this PC area, sele
ct GPIB0, and click the Change
Properties... button. Agilent 82350 PCI GPIB Interface - GPIB0 window
appears.
4. Set the GPIB Address value to 21 that is the typical address
number for the
system controller.
5. Check the System Contr
oller box.
6. Remove the check from the Auto-disc
over instruments connected to this
interface box.
This disables the automatic device detection. So the Connection Expert cannot
detect the inst
ruments connected to the GPIB interface by itself.
7. Click the OK button on Agilent 82350 PCI GPIB Interface - GPIB0 window.
8. On the Reboot Required dialog box, click the Reboot Now button, and reboot
the B1500A.
NOTE To Disable System Controller
If the B1500A is the system controller, you cannot control the B1500A by using an
external computer. To disable the system controller, change the steps 4 and 5 for
setting the GPIB Address value to not 21 and removing the check from the System
Controller box, and perform the procedure to the step 8.