HP E8491A manual Installing, Instrument Drivers

Editing the HP E8491A

Configuration on

Windows 95 Platforms

After installing the HP I_O Libraries and configuring the HP E8491A on the Windows 95 platform, an hp icon is placed in the bottom right corner of your PC monitor (Figure 2-13).

Figure 2-13. Editing Your Configuration on Windows 95 Platforms.

Step 5: Installing

the

HP VXIplug&play

Instrument Drivers

Clicking on the icon using the right mouse button brings up the following menu items:

I_O Config: starts the HP I_O Libraries’ ‘I_O Config’ utility.

Edit Resource Manager: goes directly to the Resource Manager section of the ‘I_O Config’ utility (see Figure 2-16). This section allows you to edit configuration files, run the resource manager on a specific mainframe, and view the resource manager output. You must re-run the resource manager each time changes are made.

Refresh Resource Manager: re-runs the resource manager on all VXI mainframes in your system to implement configuration changes made. You must “refresh” (re-run) the resource manager each time changes are made. If changes are made to only a single configuration (mainframe), see “Edit Resource Manager” above.

Close Application: stops the SICL iproc utility which enables the resource manager to run. To re-start iproc, select Start/Programs/StartUp/HP E8491 Resource Manager .

There are no SCPI instrument drivers installed in, or downloaded to the HP E8491A. While this does not impact message-based instruments, register-based instruments in IEEE 1394 based systems are programmed using their VXIplug&play drivers.

The HP VXIplug&play drivers are located on the HP Universal Instrument Drivers CD which ships with the E8491A and with each VXI instrument.The installer program on the driver CD is similar to that on the I_O libraries CD.

Once the drivers have been installed, reboot the PC.

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