Software/Firmware Architecture Overview - Agilent Technologies E2050 Installation And Configuration Manual

Software/Firmware Architecture Overview

Agilent SICL contains the LAN client software needed to access the
LAN/GPIB Gateway. Thus, SICL is also provided with the VISA, VEE, and
HP BASIC/UX 700 I/O application software products. To use any of these
software products with the LAN/GPIB Gateway, you must also install and
configure SICL on the client computer system.
Several of these software products support two different LAN networking
protocols: the SICL LAN Protocol and the TCP/IP Instrument Protocol.
Version A.01.00 or later of the LAN/GPIB Gateway supports the SICL LAN
Protocol and VXI-11 (TCP/IP Instrument Protocol). To check your version of
the Gateway (and the protocol(s) you can use with the Gateway depending
on the software product you have), see Chapter 4.
As shown in the following figure, the client system contains the LAN client
software provided with SICL as well as the TCP/IP LAN software needed to
access the Gateway. The Gateway contains LAN server and TCP/IP LAN
firmware so that it acts as the LAN server.
The LAN client software provided with SICL uses the TCP/IP LAN protocol
suite to pass messages between the client system and the server (the
E2050 LAN/GPIB Gateway). Therefore, the client sends I/O requests over
the network to the server. The server then executes those I/O requests on
the appropriate GPIB based instrument(s) connected to the server.
Client System
Application
Agilent VISA
SICL
LAN Client
TCP
IP
LAN Interface
Software/Firmware Architecture
Chapter 1
E2050 Software/Firmware Architecture
Server (E2050)
LAN Server
TCP
Instrument
IP Driver
LAN Interface
GPIB bus (or other)
Introduction
Instrument
Instrument
Firmware
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