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34 Agilent Connectivity Guide
2 Installing Agilent I/O Libraries Suite
Selecting Application Software
This table gives guidelines for using additional I/O software.
When You Want to: Use This Software:
Instrument Web Browser (Product Design or Product Characterization)
Remotely communicate with instruments from your
PC, but do not need to program the instruments.
(The IO Libraries are not required.)
Provides a “soft front panel” displayed on your Web
browser that you can use to control the instrument
(Web-enabled instruments only).
Agilent IntuiLink (Product Design or Product Characterization)
Remotely communicate with instruments from your
PC, but do not need to program the instruments
(The IO Libraries are required.)
Provides a “soft front panel” specific to an instrument
that you can use to control instruments.
IVI-COM Drivers (Product Characterization or Product Test)
IVI-COM drivers that implement standard
instrument-class interfaces provide syntactical
interchangeability; this means that you may be able
to replace an instrument in your test system with
another, similar instrument with fewer changes or
even no changes to your test program, depending
on your use of instrument-specific interfaces.
IVI-COM drivers are implemented as COM (Microsoft
Common Object Model) objects, and are therefore
optimized and recommended for use in Microsoft Visual
Studio and Visual Studio .NET.
VXIplug&play Drivers (Product Characterization or Product Test)
VXIplug&play drivers allow you to develop
application programs that are portable across
many computer platforms and I/O interfaces.
VXIplug&play drivers (also known as Plug&Play or
Universal Instrument Drivers) conform to a set of
system-level standards produced by the VXIplug&play
Systems Alliance. These standards apply to instrument
drivers, soft front panels, installation packages,
documentation, technical support and application
development environments. VXIplug&play drivers are
widely used and based on the VISA API.