Technical data

• IVI-COM driver installed
• Configured IO connection to the Serial BERT (you should be able to find the
Serial BERT with the I/O libraries VISA assistant)
Initializing the Connection to the SerialBERT
Initializing the Connection - Concepts
The first step in setting up a program for controlling the Serial BERT is to create
an object that corresponds to the instrument. You can either use the Serial BERT
class (AgilentN490x), or you can use the IVI-compliant Agilent BERT class
(AgilentBert).
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If you set up your code using the AgilentBert class, you can easily port your programs
to other IVI-compliant Agilent instruments. As Agilent's fulfillment of the IVI-
compliance requirements, this class is shared by all other Agilent IVI-compliant
instruments.
The examples in this document show how to set up a reference to the AgilentBert
class and use this class.
Initializing the Connection - Procedures
The following code shows you how you would establish the connection to the
instrument. The ResourceName ( "TCPIP1::10.0.0.207::inst0::INSTR" ) must be replaced
by the instrument's address string from the VISA Assistant.
' First our declarations...
Private myN490X As AgilentN490x
Private myBERT As AgilentBert
Private myPG As AgilentBertLib.IAgilentBertPG
Private myPGClock As AgilentBertLib.IAgilentBertPGClock
Private myPGOut As AgilentBertLib.IAgilentBertPGOutput
Private myEDDataIn As AgilentBertLib.IAgilentBertEDDataIn
Private Sub Form_Load()
Set myN490X = New AgilentN490x
Set myBERT = myN490x.IAgilentBert
myBERT.Initialize ("TCPIP1::10.0.0.207::inst0::INSTR",
2 A Typical SerialBERT Program
14 Agilent J-BERT N4903B High-Performance Serial BERT