HP WaterSkis E1312A, WaterSkis E1412A manual Programming Example, Device Configuration

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HP VEE

Programming

Example

Device Configuration

HP VEE is HP’s Visual Engineering Environment, a graphical programming language for creating test systems and solving engineering problems. This section provides an instrument control example using the “Direct I/O” feature of HP VEE. Direct I/O allows you to directly specify messages to be sent to an instrument and to directly read the information sent back by an instrument. Direct I/O also offers the most efficient I/O performance in

HP VEE.

The example provided here synchronizes a measurement scan with a switch module. This is the same example previously discussed in this chapter with programs provided in the C and Visual Basic programming languages.

You must configure your HP E1312A or HP E1412A Multimeter (and the switch module) before you can communicate with them.

1.Select I/O Þ Instrument... from the menu bar. The Instrument Select or Configure dialog box pops up.

2.Select the Direct I/O button from the Instrument Type choices. Then select Add Instrument from the Instrument Configure choices. This selection pops up the Device Configuration dialog box.

3.Fill in the Device Configuration Name, Interface, Address and Timeout. Set Byte Ordering to MSB and Live Mode to ON. Then select Direct I/O Config... The Direct I/O Configuration dialog box pops up.

4.Verify Conformance is set to IEEE 488 (use default settings for all others).

5.Select OK to close both the Direct I/O and Device Configuration boxes.

6.Select the “name” you put in the name field of the device configuration dialog box now appearing in the instrument list and press the Get Instr button.

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