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Programming Fundamentals 28
Agilent N8201A Performance Downconverter Synthetic Instrument Module, 250 kHz to 26.5 GHz 607
After you have the VISA/SICL LAN I/O drivers installed, perform the steps below to set up
VEE to control your instrument:
1 On your computer or workstation, select I/O|Instrument Manager.
2 Add a new GPIB device with an address of 7XX, where XX is the GPIB device address
from your instrument.
Figure 11 Adding Your Instrument as a VEE Device
To send SCPI commands to the instrument, select I/O|Instrument Manager, and the GPIB
device just added. Select Direct I/O. You can now type SCPI commands in the command
window, and they are sent over the LAN to your instrument.
Controlling Your Instrument with SICL LAN and Agilent BASIC for Windows
Before you can use Agilent BASIC for Windows with SICL LAN, you need to set up
VISA/SICL LAN I/O drivers for use with your BASIC applications. Consult your BASIC
documentation for information how to do this.
To set up SICL LAN for BASIC, add the following statement to your AUTOST program (all on
a single line):
LOAD BIN "GPIBS;DEV lan[N8201A IP address]:GPIB name TIME 30
ISC 7"
Replace N8201A IP address with the IP address of your instrument, GPIP name with
the GPIB name given to your instrument, and 7 with the logical unit number.