Installation guide

96 Chapter 4
Configuring I/O Interfaces
Configuring LAN Interfaces
Example:
Configuring VISA
LAN Client
(Gateway) Interface
The VISA LAN Client interface system in the following figure consists of a
Windows PC with a LAN card, an E2050 LAN/GPIB gateway, and two GPIB
instruments. The IO Config utility has been used to assign the LAN card
a VISA name of “TCPIP0” and SICL name of “lan”. In addition, a VISA LAN
Client has been configured with the interface names and host names shown
in the figure. Also, the E2050 LAN/GPIB Gateway has been assigned a
name of machine1 and an hpib-name = hpib.
Since unique names have been assigned by IO Config, you can now use the
VISA viOpen command or the SICL iopen command to open the IO paths
to the GPIB instruments as shown in the figure. Note, however, that SICL
addressing is not supported when using VISA LAN Client. 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