Installation guide

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Configuring I/O Interfaces
Configuring Other Interfaces
When the RS-232 COM Ports screen appears, set the VISA Interface Name
and Serial port attributes, as required. Then, click the
OK button.
Example:
Configuring ASRL
Interfaces
The ASRL interface system in the following figure consists of a Windows PC
with two RS-232 COM ports, each of which is connected to a single Serial
instrument via RS-232 cables. The IO Config utility has been used to assign
COM Port 1 a VISA name of “ASRL1” and SICL name of “COM1”. The
IO Config utility has been used to assign COM Port 2 a VISA name of
“ASRL2” and SICL name of “COM2”.
Since unique names have been assigned by IO Config, you can now use the
VISA viOpen command to open the IO paths to the GPIB instruments as
shown in the figure. See the Agilent VISA User’s Guide for details on VISA
commands. See the Agilent SICL User’s Guide for Windows for details on
SICL commands.