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Section 7: Keithley CONfiguration Utility (KCON)
General Purpose Instrument, 2-Terminal Properties and Connections tab
Selecting General Purpose Instrument, 2-Terminal in the Configuration Navigator causes its
Properties & Connections tab to be displayed in the Workspace. See
Figure 7-33
General Purpose Instrument, 2-Terminal, Properties & Connections tab
Add a General Purpose Instrument (GPI) to your system configuration when your application
requires an unsupported external instrument.
NOTE
A two-terminal GPI is an unsupported external instrument with 2-terminals (HI and LO) (for
example, a current source). Generally, the GPI HI and LO terminals transmit or receive the GPI
stimulus signals.
To control the operation of an IEEE-488 or RS-232 GPI in a KITE project, create a user library with
KULT and use the LPTLib I/O functions (kib* and ksp*) to communicate with the GPI (refer to
Keithley User Library Tool (KULT)
instrument in the system configuration, GPI terminals can be automatically routed to test system
pins using the ConnectPins user module in the provided matrixulib user library (refer to
Switch Matrices
This Properties & Connections tab provides access to GPI instrument properties and also
provides useful switch-matrix connection information.
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An unsupported external instrument is an instrument that cannot be added to the
system configuration by selecting it from the supported Tools
Instrument categories.
in Appendix B for more information).
Return to
in Section 8, for more information). However, as for any other
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