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Step 6. Verifying the
Installation
Using Instrument Soft
Front Panels
Click to activate a soft
front panel
Chapter 2
Once you have installed the hardware, the I/O Libraries, the VXIplug&play
drivers, and have re-booted the PC, you should now verify the installation.
This ensures that you can communicate with instruments in the system over
the IEEE 1394 interface. Two ways to check your system are to run an
instrument's soft front panel, or to view the output of the system's resource
manager.
Soft front panels are part of the instruments' VXIplug&play drivers. A soft
front panel is activated from the 'Vxipnp' program group as shown in Figure
2-14.
Figure 2-14. Selecting a VXIplug&play Soft Front Panel.
When the system hardware and software are properly installed and the PC is
communicating with the mainframe, the soft front panel will be opened and
a connection made to the instrument as shown in Figure 2-15.
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