Communicating With The 34980A - Agilent Technologies 34980a Getting Started Manual

Communicating with the 34980A

You can use either instrument drivers or SCPI commands (in any programming environment) to
communicate with the 34980A. However, Agilent has designed drivers that work best in recommended
environments, as shown in the table below. To install drivers and their associated Help files, refer to the
34980A Product Reference CD-ROM , which is included with the 34980A User's Guide . This CD-ROM
also contains a collection of example programs for your reference.
Programming Environment
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Microsoft Visual C version 6.0, Visual C++
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Microsoft Visual Basic
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Microsoft Visual Studio
Agilent VEE
National Instrument's LabVIEW
National Instrument's LabWindows/CVI
20
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, and ANSI C
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version 6.0
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.NET for C#, C, and Visual Basic
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Driver(s)
IVI-C, IVI-COM
IVI-C, IVI-COM
IVI-COM
IVI-C
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LabVIEW Plug and Play
(native mode), IVI-C
IVI-C
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