Agilent Technologies Cary 8454 Installation Manual page 83

GPIB Communication, Connections and Configuration 6
GPIB Communication
The Agilent 82357A/B USB to GPIB interface has an integrated 2.5 m cable and an GPIB
N O T E
connector. In a single instrument configuration no additional GPIB cable is required.
According to the IEEE 488 specification for the General Purpose Instrument Bus
WA R N I N G
(GPIB), the bus is not designed for dynamic configuration. Cycling power on an GPIB
instrument that is connected to the bus while other GPIB instruments are actively
communicating to the GPIB controller can induce electrical spikes that may
potentially corrupt the GPIB protocol. In extreme cases. this may require cycling
power on all instruments, including the GPIB controller (that is, typically the Agilent
ChemStation).
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