Installation guide

58 Chapter 3
Using IO Configuration Utilities
Using IO Config
2 The above figure shows the available interface types (ASRL,
GPIB, etc.) you can configure with IO Config and a description of
each interface. In addition, the figure shows Configured Interfaces
(interfaces already configured). Each configured interface has an
associated VISA and/or SICL name.
In this figure, a configured ASRL (RS-232) interface has VISA
name ASRL1 and SICL name COM1, a configured GPIB interface
has VISA name GPIB0 and SICL name hpib7, etc. These names
are used to open interface paths with the VISA viOpen command
or the SICL iopen command. See the Agilent VISA User’s Guide
for Windows for information on VISA commands. See the Agilent
SICL User’s Guide for Windows for details on SICL commands.
3 To use IO Config to configure an interface, highlight the interface
type and click the
Configure button. The applicable configuration
screen then appears. For example, for this figure, the 82350 PCI
GPIB Card Configuration screen appears.
4 When the screen appears (see the following figure), set the VISA
and SICL Interface Names and the Logical Unit and Bus Address
values, as required. Then, click the
OK button. If you have more
than one 82350 card in your system, repeat for remaining cards.
If you have questions about using IO Config for a specific interface,
click the
Help button on the IO Config dialog box.