Using Sicl Lan To Control The Instrument - Agilent Technologies PSA Series User And Programming Manual
Spectrum analyzers
Hide thumbs
Also See for PSA Series:
- Service manual (436 pages) ,
- Manual (382 pages) ,
- Getting started manual (82 pages)
Table of Contents
Advertisement
Programming Fundamentals
Using the LAN to Control the Instrument
Using SICL LAN to Control the Instrument
SICL LAN is a LAN protocol using the Standard Instrument Control
Library (SICL). It provides control of your instrument over the LAN,
using a variety of computing platforms, I/O interfaces, and operating
systems. With SICL LAN, you control your remote instrument over the
LAN with the same methods you use for a local instrument connected
directly to the controller with the GPIB. More information about SICL
LAN can be found in the HP Standard Instrument Control Library
user's guide for HP-UX, part number E2091-90004.
Your instrument implements a SICL LAN server. To control the
instrument, you need a SICL LAN client application running on a
computer or workstation that is connected to the instrument over a
LAN. Typical applications implementing a SICL LAN client include
• HP/Agilent VEE
• HP/Agilent BASIC
• National Instrument's LabView with HP/Agilent VISA/SICL client
The SICL LAN protocol is Agilent's implementation of the VXI-11
NOTE
Instrument Protocol, defined by the VXIbus Consortium working group.
Older versions of National Instruments' VISA does not support the
VXI-11 Instrument Protocol. Contact National Instruments for their
latest version.
SICL LAN can be used with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT,
and HP-UX.
Your instrument has a SICL LAN server to emulate GPIB over LAN,
but it cannot be used to control other externally connected GPIB
instruments.
Collecting SICL LAN Set-up Information
Before you set up your instrument as a SICL LAN server, you need
some information about your instrument. The "value" of the following
parameters is used to set up your VISA/SICL LAN client application:
Emulated GPIB
Name
316
drivers
The GPIB name is the name given to a device used to
communicate with the instrument. Your instrument is
shipped with gpib7 as its GPIB name. The GPIB name
is the same as the remote SICL address.
Chapter 5
Advertisement
Table of Contents
