Instrument Drivers; About Example Programs; Verifying A Successful Configuration - HP E1419A User Manual

Instrument Drivers

About Example Programs

Examples on CD
Example Command
Sequences

Verifying a Successful Configuration

Note
Chapter 1
The HP E1405B/E1406, down-loadable driver is supplied with your
HP E1419A on the "HP Instrument Drivers" CD ROM. To download this
driver into your HP E1406A Command module, run the Setup program on
the CD, click on "continue", then click on "Perform Installations", then
select "Download SCPI Drivers into Command Modules". This sequence
starts the HP VIC installation. HP VIC will help you configure your VXI
system, including downloading the HP E1419's driver.
All example programs mentioned by file name in this manual are available
on the "Driver CD ROM" supplied with your HP E1419A. See the HP VEE
Program Examples Chapter, page 147 for specific location of files on the
CD.
Where programming concepts are discussed in this manual, the commands
to send to the HP E1419A are shown in the form of command sequences.
These are not example programs because they are not written in any
computer language. They are meant to show the HP E1419A SCPI
commands in the sequence they should be sent. Where necessary, these
sequences include comments to describe program flow and control such as
loop - end loop, and if - end if. See the code sequence on page 3-85 for an
example.
Among the HP VEE example programs supplied with your HP E1419A is a
program (file name "panl1419.vee") that can be used to check out your
HP E1419A configuration and installation. When you start this "Front
Panel" program, it communicates with your HP E1419A and executes
instructions to determine and display the installed SCP types. It also
simulates a strip chart recorder so you can select input channels to monitor
and display. "Buttons" are included that will run the HP E1419A's self-test
as well as well as perform an "auto-calibration". Self-test and Cal can take 3
to 15 minutes to coplete depending upon the number and type of SCPs you
have installed in your HP E1419A.
When you load the first HP VEE program that communicates with your
HP E1419A, HP VEE will display a dialog box asking for the HP-IB
address string to use. The typical HP-IB address is "70926" for an
HP E1419A at logical address 208, and an HP E1406 at HP-IB address 09.
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