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1 Installing and Configuring the 82350
28 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide
Step 5: Communicating with your instruments
After the 82350 has been configured and you have
connected your GPIB instruments to the 82350, 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 programming the instruments using
VISA, VISA COM, SICL, or SCPI commands. This
section includes:
• Verifying Instruments
• Programming Your Instruments (Optional)
Verifying instrument communication
When the Agilent IO Libraries Suite was installed
on your PC, an I/O utility called Interactive IO
was also installed. You can use Interactive IO to
verify communication between your PC and
connected GPIB instruments.This section shows
one way to use Interactive IO to verify instrument
communication.
To use Interactive IO to send a *IDN?
(identification) query to an instrument:
1 Select the instrument by clicking its icon in the
Connection Expert explorer view.
2 Right-click the instrument and click Send
Commands To This Instrument to display the
Interactive IO window. For information on
NOTE
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 see their IDN string
information in the detail pane then communication has been
verified. Interactive IO allows you to manually verify
communication and send specific commands to your
instruments.