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10 Agilent Connectivity Guide
1 Getting Started
Using This Guide
A typical complex test system includes a collection of instruments under
the control of a PC that has been programmed to perform testing and
reporting routines. Often, the communication between the test
instruments and the PC involve various forms of I/O; refer to Figure 1.
Configuring interfaces to connect your PC to the test instruments can be
daunting. Agilent’s IO Libraries Suite v15 significantly simplifies this
task.
This Agilent Connectivity Guide with IO Libraries Suite Getting Started
describes in detail how to connect instruments to GPIB, USB, and LAN
interfaces and how to configure and troubleshoot these interfaces on
PCs with Windows Vista or XP operating systems.
Figure 1 Example test system: PC, instruments, Three Types of I/O