Step 5: Communicating With Instruments; Verifying Instrument Communication - Keysight 82351A User Manual

Step 5: Communicating with Instruments

Verifying instrument communication

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82351A User's Guide
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After the 82351A has been configured and you have
connected your GPIB instruments to the 82351A, the next
step is to verify communication between your PC and the
instruments using the Interactive IO utility. After
communication has been established, you can begin to
program the instruments using VISA, VISA COM, SICL, or
SCPI commands. This section includes:
• Verifying Instrument Communication
• Programming Your Instruments (Optional)
When the Keysight IO Libraries Suite is installed on your
PC, an I/O utility called Interactive IO is also installed. You
can use Interactive IO to verify communication between your
PC and the connected GPIB instruments. This section shows
you how to verify instrument communication using
Interactive IO.
Once your GPIB interface has been configured in Connection Expert, if you
can see the attached GPIB instrument(s) in the Connection Expert explorer
and the respective IDN string information in the detail pane, it means the
communication has been established. Interactive IO allows you to
manually verify communication and send specific commands to your
instruments.
To use Interactive IO to send a *IDN? (identification) query
to an instrument, see the steps below:
1 Select the instrument by clicking its icon in the
Connection Expert explorer view.
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