Gpib Interfacing In Hp Vee - Agilent Technologies 8163A Programming Manual

Using Visual Programming Environments
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel
System, Third Edition
HP VEE automatically calls the initialize and close functions to perform
automatic error checking.

GPIB Interfacing in HP VEE

HP VEE supports interfacing with an instrument from a GPIB card.
Before you can do this, you must do the following:
1 Select Instrument Manager from the I/O menu.
2 Double-click on the Add button to bring up the Device Configuration
screen, see Figure 12.
Figure 12 Device Configuration
3 Enter the following information:
– Name: enter hp816X.
– Interface: HP-IB
– Address: Enter the GPIB address of your GPIB interface board
(the default is 7). Append the GPIB address of your instrument (the
default is 20).
N O T E To find out or change the instrument's GPIB address, press the Config
hardkey on the instrument's front panel and choose GPIB address. The
instrument's GPIB address appears, you may edit it if you wish.
– Gateway: This host.
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