1 Installing and Configuring the 82350
Step 5: Communicating with your instruments
After the 82350 has been configured and you have connected your GPIB instruments to the 82350, the next step is to verify communication between your PC and the instruments using the Interactive IO utility. After communication has been established, you can begin programming the instruments using VISA, VISA COM, SICL, or SCPI commands. This section includes:
•Verifying Instruments
•Programming Your Instruments (Optional)
Verifying instrument communication
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When the Agilent IO Libraries Suite was installed on your PC, an I/O utility called Interactive IO was also installed. You can use Interactive IO to verify communication between your PC and connected GPIB instruments.This section shows one way to use Interactive IO to verify instrument communication.
Once your GPIB interface has been configured in Connection Expert, if you can see the attached GPIB instrument(s) in the Connection Expert explorer and see their IDN string information in the detail pane then communication has been verified. Interactive IO allows you to manually verify communication and send specific commands to your instruments.
To use Interactive IO to send a *IDN? (identification) query to an instrument:
1Select the instrument by clicking its icon in the Connection Expert explorer view.
2Right- click the instrument and click Send Commands To This Instrument to display the Interactive IO window. For information on
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