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56 Agilent Connectivity Guide
3 Connecting Instruments to GPIB
5 Change/Accept the Configuration Values. When the configuration
values displayed are acceptable to you, click the OK button.
Repeat Steps for Other Interfaces. If you have installed more than one
GPIB interface in your test system, repeat these steps for the remaining
interfaces.
System Controller
The System Controller setting determines whether this GPIB interface
controls which bus devices talk and which bus devices listen. If several
devices exist on a bus, be sure each has a unique GPIB bus address and
only one device is the system controller (it is usually the device installed
in the computer). Each GPIB interface has its own independent bus.
Thus, each interface may be a System Controller as long as it is not
chained together with other GPIB interfaces. However, two or more
System Controllers on the same bus will cause the bus to be inoperative.
Note that the Agilent 82357B USB/GPIB Interface Converter will
always be System Controller for its bus.