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Chapter 4 73
Configuring I/O Interfaces
Configuring GPIB Interfaces
When the 82350 PCI GPIB Card Configuration 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.
Example:
Configuring GPIB
(82350) Interface
The GPIB interface system in the following figure consists of a Windows PC
with two 82350 GPIB cards connected to three GPIB instruments via GPIB
cables. For this system, the IO Config utility has been used to assign GPIB
card #1 a VISA name of “GPIB0” and a SICL name of “hpib7”. IO Config has
also been used to assign GPIB card #2 a VISA name of “GPIB1” and a SICL
name of “hpib8”. With these names assigned to the interfaces, the
VISA/SICL addressing is as shown in the figure.
Since unique names have been assigned by IO Config, you can use the
VISA viOpen command to open the I/O paths to the GPIB instruments as
shown in the above figure. Or, you can use the SICL iopen command to
open the I/O paths shown. 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.
NOTE
After the system is configured, this screen may also display an
Edit VISA
Config...
button. Clicking this button allows you to manually configure the
interface as desired. See the IO Libraries Readme file for details.