HP 9000 700 Series Owner's Manual page 59

Using HP SICL for VXIbus Backplane Communication
Once your VXIbus system is con gured, you can start programming with
SICL. SICL allows you to communicate directly over the VXIbus backplane to
SCPI compatible message-based and register-based instruments.
With the SICL C library, you simply open a communications session with the
desired instrument or interface ( , or for register-based instruments)
vxi iscpi
and send your instrument SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable
Instruments) commands directly over the VXIbus backplane. The following is a
C language example that queries a VXI instrument for its identi cation string
and prints the results:
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