User manual

Section
2: General operation Series 2600B System SourceMeter® Instrument
Reference Manual
2-90 2600BS-901-01 Rev. B / May 2013
Supported remote interfaces
The Series 2600B supports the following remote interfaces:
• GPIB. General purpose interface bus is an IEEE-488 instrumentation data bus.
• LAN. Local area network (LAN) communications provide the flexibility to build scalable and
functional test or data acquisition systems with a large degree of flexibility.
• USB. Communicate with the instrument over a USB connection.
• RS-232.
The Series 2600B can be controlled from only one communication interface at a time. The first
interface on which it receives a message takes control of the instrument. It ignores the other
interfaces until the instrument is returned to local operation.
For more information about the remote interfaces, see:
• GPIB setup (on page 2-104)
• LAN concepts and settings (on page C-1)
• USB communications (on page 2-92)
• RS-232 interface operation (on page 2-108)