The Agilent 816X Vxiplug&Play Instrument Driver - Agilent Technologies 8163A Programming Manual

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The Agilent 816x VXIplug&play Instrument
Driver
Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition
This chapter gives you extra information about installing and getting
started with the Agilent 816x VXIplug&play instrument driver.
There are details about opening and closing an instrument session, data
types and constants used, error handling, and the programming
environments supported.
Installing the Agilent 816x Instrument Driver . . . . . . . . . 214
Using Visual Programming Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Getting Started with Agilent VEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
Getting Started with LabView. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Getting Started with LabWindows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Features of the Agilent 816x Instrument Driver . . . . . . . 225
Directory Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Opening an Instrument Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Closing an Instrument Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
VISA Data Types and Selected Constant Definitions . . . 229
Error Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Introduction to Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Example Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
VISA-Specific Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Development Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Online Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Lambda Scan Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
How to Perform a Lambda Scan Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
How to Perform a Multi-Frame Lambda Scan Application. . . 239
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