User`s guide

Introduction
VEE Pro User’s Guide 3
Overview of Agilent VEE
Agilent VEE is a graphical programming language optimized for
building test and measurement applications, and programs with
operator interfaces. This release (version 7.0) of the Agilent
VEE product is for groups of engineers that need to create
complex test and measurement systems.
Advantages of Using Agilent VEE for Test Development
VEE offers many advantages in test development:
• Increase your productivity dramatically. Customers report
reducing their program development time up to 80%.
• Use VEE in a wide range of applications including functional
test, design verification, calibration, and data acquisition and
control.
• Gain instrument I/O flexibility controlling GPIB, VXI, Serial,
GPIO, PC Plug- in cards, and LAN instruments. Use “panel”
drivers, VXIplug&play drivers, “direct I/O” over standard
interfaces, or imported libraries from multiple vendors.
• Use ActiveX Automation and Controls on PCs to control
other applications such as MS Word, Excel, and Access that
assist with generating reports, displaying and analyzing data,
or putting test results into a database for future use.
• Increase throughput, build larger programs with ease, and
become more flexible in instrument management. VEE has a
compiler; a professional development environment suited for
large, complex programs; and advanced instrument
management capabilities.
• VEE supports Visual Studio .NET assembles, which means
that any textual language that truly supports Visual Studio
.NET is supported by VEE.
• You can further leverage your investment in textual
languages because VEE also supports additional textual
languages such as C/C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, and Fortran.