Agilent Technologies 6000 Series Opening the Oscilloscope Connection via the IO Library

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Opening the Oscilloscope Connection via the IO Library

PC controllers communicate with the oscilloscope by sending and receiving messages over a remote interface. Once you have opened a connection to the oscilloscope over the remote interface, programming instructions normally appear as ASCII character strings embedded inside write statements of the programing language. Read statements are used to read query responses from the oscilloscope.

For example, when using the Agilent VISA COM library in Visual Basic (after opening the connection to the instrument using the ResourceManager object’s Open method), the FormattedIO488 object’s WriteString, WriteNumber, WriteList, or WriteIEEEBlock methods are used for sending commands and queries. After a query is sent, the response is read using the ReadString, ReadNumber, ReadList, or ReadIEEEBlock methods.

The following Visual Basic statements open the connection and send a command that turns on the oscilloscope’s label display.

Dim myMgr As VisaComLib.ResourceManager

Dim myScope As VisaComLib.FormattedIO488

Set myMgr = New VisaComLib.ResourceManager

Set myScope = New VisaComLib.FormattedIO488

'Open the connection to the oscilloscope. Get the VISA Address from the

'Agilent Connection Expert (installed with Agilent IO Libraries Suite). Set myScope.IO = myMgr.Open("<VISA Address>")

'Send a command.

myScope.WriteString “:DISPLAY:LABEL ON"

The “:DISPLAY:LABEL ON” in the above example is called a program message. Program messages are explained in more detail in the online Programmer’s

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Contents Programmer’s Quick Start Guide WA R N I N G Programming the Oscilloscope-At a Glance This Book Contents Index Setting Up Connect and set up the oscilloscope Install Agilent IO Libraries Suite softwareUsing the LAN Interface Using the USB Device InterfaceUsing the Gpib Interface Verify the oscilloscope connection Click Test Connection Setting Up To access the Programmer’s Reference help file Access the Programmer’s ReferenceTo get the latest versions via the web Language for Program Examples Getting StartedInitializing Basic Oscilloscope Program StructureAnalyzing Captured Data Capturing DataReferencing the IO Library Programming the OscilloscopeOpening the Oscilloscope Connection via the IO Library Initializing the Interface and the Oscilloscope Using AUToscale to Automate Oscilloscope SetupInformation for Initializing the Instrument Example Oscilloscope Setup Code Using Other Oscilloscope Setup CommandsSet TIMebaseMODE to Main or DELayed when using DIGitize Capturing Data with the DIGitize CommandEnsure New Data is Collected Aborting a Digitize Operation Over Gpib Following program example shows a typical setupReading Query Responses from the Oscilloscope Reading Query Results into String Variables Express String Variables Using Exact SyntaxReading Query Results into Numeric Variables #8000010001000 bytes of dataterminator Reading Definite-Length Block Query Response DataChecking Instrument Status Sending Multiple Queries and Reading ResultsSending Scpi Commands using Browser Web Control Other Ways of Sending CommandsTelnet Sockets Index Index Page Index
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6000 Series specifications

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