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External References
SCPI References
The following documents will assist you with programming in SCPI:
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Beginner’s Guide to SCPI
. Agilent Part No. H2325-90001. Highly recommended for anyone who
has not had previous experience programming with SCPI.
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Tutorial Description of the General Purpose Interface Bus
. Agilent Part No. 5952-0156. Highly
recommended for those not familiar with the IEEE 488.1 and 488.2 standards.
To obtain a copy of the above documents, contact your local Agilent Sales and Support Office.
GPIB References
The most important GPIB documents are your controller programming manuals - Agilent BASIC, GPIB
Command Library for MS DOS, etc. Refer to these for all non-SCPI commands (for example: Local
Lockout).
The following are two formal documents concerning the GPIB interface:
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ANSI/IEEE Std. 488.1-1987 IEEE Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation
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Defines the technical details of the GPIB interface. While much of the information is beyond the
need of most programmers, it can serve to clarify terms used in this guide and in related
documents.
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ANSI/IEEE Std. 488.2-1987 IEEE Standard Codes, Formats, Protocols, and Common
Commands
. Recommended as a reference only if you intend to do fairly sophisticated
programming. Helpful for finding precise definitions of certain types of SCPI message formats,
data types, or common commands.
The above two documents are available from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),
345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA.
Agilent VXI
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Power Products
Instrument Drivers
Agilent VXI
plug&play
Power Products instrument drivers for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT are
now available on the Web at http://www.ag.com/go/drivers. These instrument drivers provide a high-
level programming interface to your Agilent Power Products instrument. Agilent VXI
plug&play
instrument
drivers are an alternative to programming your instrument with SCPI command strings. Because the
instrument driver’s function calls work together on top of the VISA I/O library, a single instrument driver
can be used with multiple application environments.
Supported Applications
ñ Agilent VEE
ñ Microsoft Visual BASIC
ñ Microsoft Visual C/C++
ñ Borland C/C++
ñ National Instruments LabVIEW
ñ National Instruments LabWindows/CVI