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VXI
plug&play
Power Products
Instrument Drivers
VXI plug&play Power Products instrument drivers for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT are now available on the
Web at http://www.agilent.com/find/drivers. These instrument drivers provide a high-level programming interface to your
Agilent Power Products instrument. 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 System Requirements
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
The VXI plug&play Power Products instrument driver
complies with the following:
ñ Microsoft Windows 95
ñ Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
ñ HP VISA revision F.01.02
ñ National Instruments VISA 1.1
Downloading and Installing the Driver
NOTE: Before installing the VXI plug&play instrument driver, make sure that you have one of the supported
applications installed and running on your computer.
1. Access Agilent Technologies’ Web site at http://www.agilent.com/find/drivers.
2. Select the instrument for which you need the driver.
3. Click on the driver, either Windows 95 or Windows NT, and download the executable file to your pc.
4. Locate the file that you downloaded from the Web. From the Start menu select Run <path>:\agxxxx.exe - where
<path> is the directory path where the file is located, and agxxxx is the instrument driver that you downloaded .
5. Follow the directions on the screen to install the software. The default installation selections will work in most
cases. The readme.txt file contains product updates or corrections that are not documented in the on-line help. If
you decide to install this file, use any text editor to open and read it.
6. To use the VXI plug&play instrument driver, follow the directions in the VXI plug&play online help under
“Introduction to Programming”.
Accessing Online Help
A comprehensive online programming reference is provided with the driver. It describes how to get started using the
instrument driver with Agilent VEE, LabVIEW, and LabWindows. It includes complete descriptions of all function calls
as well as example programs in C/C++ and Visual BASIC.
ñ To access the online help when you have chosen the default Vxipnp start folder, click on the Start button and select
Programs | Vxipnp | Agxxxx Help (32-bit).
- where Agxxxx is the instrument driver.