Agilent Technologies 6000 Series

12 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide

1Setting Up

You must manually add instruments on LAN interfaces:

aRight-click on the LAN interface, choose Add Instr ument from the

popup menu, and click OK in the resulting dialog (because the desired

interface is already selected).

bIn the next LAN Instrument dialog, select either Hostname or IP

address, and enter the oscilloscope’s hostname or IP address.

cClick Test Connection.

dIf the instrument is successfully opened, click OK to close the dialog. If

the instrument is not opened successfully, go back and verify the LAN

connections and the oscilloscope setup.

3Test some commands on the instrument:

aRight-click on the instrument and choose Send Commands To This

Instrument from the popup menu.

Contents

Main Notices Manual Part Number Edition Warranty Technology Licenses Programming the OscilloscopeAt a Glance In This Book See Also Contents Page Page Step 1. Install Agilent IO Libraries Suite software Step 2. Connect and set up the oscilloscope GPIB LAN USB Using the USB (Device) Interface Using the LAN Interface Using the GPIB Interface Step 3. Verify the oscilloscope connection Page Page Step 4. Access the Programmers Reference To access the Programmers Reference help file To get the latest versions via the web Agilent Technologies 2 Getting Started NOTE Basic Oscilloscope Program Structure Initializing Capturing Data Analyzing Captured Data Programming the Oscilloscope Referencing the IO Library Opening the Oscilloscope Connection via the IO Library Initializing the Interface and the Oscilloscope Using :AUToscale to Automate Oscilloscope Setup NOTE Using Other Oscilloscope Setup Commands Example Oscilloscope Setup Code Capturing Data with the :DIGitize Command NOTE Reading Query Responses from the Oscilloscope Reading Query Results into String Variables Reading Query Results into Numeric Variables NOTE Reading Definite-Length Block Query Response Data Sending Multiple Queries and Reading Results Checking Instrument Status Other Ways of Sending Commands Tel ne t So ck et s Sending SCPI Commands using Browser Web Control Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmers Quick Start Guide 29 Index Numerics A B C S T U V W