Step 5: Programming Via The 82357B; Establishing Instrument Communication - Keysight 82357B User Manual

Step 5: Programming via the 82357B

After you have connected your GPIB instrument(s) to the 82357B, the next step is
to establish communication between your PC and the instruments using
Interactive IO. After communication has been established, you can begin
programming the instruments using VISA, VISA COM, or SICL.

Establishing instrument communication

When the Keysight IO Libraries Suite is installed on your PC, an IO utility called
Interactive IO is also installed. You can use Interactive IO to verify communication
between your PC and the connected GPIB instrument(s). This section shows you
how to use Interactive IO to verify instrument communication.
Once your GPIB interface has been configured in Connection Expert, if you can
NOTE
see the attached GPIB instrument(s) in the Connection Expert explorer and see
their IDN string information in the detail pane then communication has been
verified. Interactive IO allows you to manually verify communication and send
specific commands to your instruments.
1 Click the IO icon on the Windows taskbar notification area.
2 Right-click the instrument and click Send Commands To This Instrument to
3 *IDN? is the default command. Click Send & Read to send the identification
4 To send other commands, click Commands> to select from a list of common
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display the Interactive IO window. For information on Interactive IO, click Help.
query to the instrument and display its reply in the Interactive IO window.
commands, or type a command into the Command: field. If you experience
timeout errors for some commands, click Options to change the timeout value.
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