Filter
Top Products
Getting Started 11Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Getting Started
Using This Chapter
This chapter shows how to get started using the E1442A 64-Channel Form
C Switch Module. It gives guidelines to configure, install and program the
module. Chapter contents include:
• Switch Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
• Configuring the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
• Configuring the Terminal Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
• Programming the Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Switch Description
The E1442A 64-Channel Form C Switch Module is a VXIbus C-Size
register-based slave device that can operate in a C-Size VXIbus mainframe
or in a VMEbus mainframe. The E1442A switch consists of a Form C switch
module and one of three types of terminal modules (Standard, Option 010,
and Option 020). The terms "Form C Switch" and "switch" refer to the
E1442A switch module.
The switch "instrument" is the firmware running in the E1406 Command
Module. This firmware is the instrument driver providing Standard
Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI) programming capability.
The term "switchbox" refers to a switch instrument consisting of one or more
switch modules.
Programming the E1442A can be done through the command module using
SCPI or via direct register access (register-based programming).
Switch Front Panel The Form C switch consists of a component module and a terminal module.
User inputs are connected to the Form C switch NO (Normally Open),
NC (Normally Closed), and C (Common) terminal connections on one of the
three available terminal modules. Figure 1-1 shows the switch module front
panel and the connector pinouts that mate to the terminal module.