User's Manual

Getting Started 3

Series N6700 User’s Guide 41

USB Interface

NOTE

For detailed information about USB interface connections, refer to the Agilent

Technologies USB/LAN/GPIB Interfaces Connectivity Guide, located on the

Automation-Ready CD that is shipped with your product.

The following steps will help you quickly get started connecting your

USB-enabled instrument to the Universal Serial Bus (USB). The

following figure illustrates a typical USB interface system.

1 If you have not already done so, install the Agilent IO Libraries

Suite from the Automation-Ready CD that is shipped with your

product.

2 Connect your instrument to the USB port on your computer.

3 With the Connection Expert utility of the Agilent IO Libraries

Suite running, the computer will automatically recognize the

instrument. This may take several seconds. When the instrument

is recognized, your computer will display the VISA alias, IDN

string, and VISA address. This information is located in the USB

folder.

4 Note that you can also view the instrument’s VISA address from

the front panel. Press the Menu key, then use the navigation keys

to select System\IO\USB\Identification.

5 You can now use Interactive IO within the Connection Expert to

communicate with your instrument, or you can program your

instrument using the various programming environments.

LAN Interface

NOTE

For detailed information about LAN interface connections, refer to the Agilent

Technologies USB/LAN/GPIB Interfaces Connectivity Guide, located on the

Automation-Ready CD that is shipped with your product.

The following steps will help you quickly get started connecting and

configuring your instrument on a local area network. The two types

of local area networks connections that are discussed in this section

are site networks and private networks.

Instrument

USB Cable

Connect to USB

port on PC.

Connect to

USB port on

instrument.