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Agilent T echnologies Agilent 82350B PCI GPIB Interface Installation and Configuration Guide[...]

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iii Safety Notices CAUTION CAUTION A CAUTION notice denotes a hazard. It calls attention to an operating procedure, practice , or the like that, if not correctly performed or adhered to, could resu lt in damage to the product or lo ss of important d ata. Do not proceed bey ond a CAUTION notice until the indicated conditions are fully under- stood a[...]

iv Safety Symbols The following symbol on the in strument and in the document a- tion indicates precau tions that must be tak en to maintain safe operation of the instrument . Direct current Alternating current Both direct and alternating current Three-phase alternating current Earth (ground) terminal Protective co nductor termin al Frame or chassi[...]

v Caution, risk of danger (refer to thi s manual for specific W arning or C austion informatio n. Caution, hot surface[...]

vi General Safety Information CAUTION CAUTION • Use the device with the cables provided. • Repair or service that is not covered in this manual should only be performe d by qualified personne ls. WARNING • Do not use the dev ice if it appears dama ged or defective. • Observe all markings on the device before con necting any wiring to the de[...]

vii Environment Conditions This instrument is designed for indoor use in areas with low condensation. T able 1 shows the general environment requirements. T able 1 Environment requirements Environment Conditions Requirements Operating environment 0 °C to +55 °C Operating himidity Up to 90% at 40 °C non-condens ing Storage environment – 40 °C [...]

viii Regulatory Markings The CE mark is a register ed trademark of the Euro- pean Community . The CE mark shows that the prod- uct complies with all the relevant European Legal Directives. ICES/NMB-001 indicates that this ISM device complies with Canadian ICES-001. The CSA mark is a registered trademark of the Canadian Standards Association. A CSA [...]

ix W aste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive 2002/96/EC This instrument complies with the WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) marking requiremen t. This affixed product label indicates that yo u must not discard th is electrical/electronic product in domestic household waste. Product Category: With reference to the equipmen t types in the[...]

x DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY According to ISO/IEC Guide 22 and CEN/CENELEC EN 45014 Manufacturer’s Name: Agilent Technologies, Incorporated Manufacturer’s Address: 815 – 14 th St. SW Loveland, CO 80537 USA Declares under sole responsibility that the product as originally delivered Product Name: PCI GPIB Interface Model Number: 82350B Product O[...]

xi Contents 1 Installing and Config uring the 82350 Getting Started 2 Step 1 - Before you install the 82350 3 Check your shipmen t 3 System requirements 4 Create an emergency repair disk 6 Step 2: Installing the Agilent IO Libraries Suite 7 Checking for installed Agilent IO Libra ries 7 Installing Agilent IO Libraries Suite 9 Step 3: Connecting you[...]

xii 3 82350 Specifications and Informatio n General Requirements 50 General Characteristics 51 Accessing an El ectronic Copy of this Guide 52 Contacting Agilent 53[...]

1 Agilent 82350B PCI GPIB Interface 82350B PCI GPIB Interface Installat ion and Configuration Guide Agilent T echnologies 1 Installing and Configuring the 82350 This Agilent 82350B PCI GPIB In terface Installation and Configuration Guide shows you how to install and configure the Agilent 82350B PCI GPIB Inte rface (called the 82350 in this guide) a[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 2 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Getting Started In this guide, an 82350 GPIB Interface Syst em is defined as a system in wh ich GPIB instruments are connected via GPIB cables t o an 82350 PCI GPIB Interface Card (called the 82350 in t his guide) that is installed in a Windows PC. Fig ure 1- 1 s[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation an d Configuration Guide 3 Step 1 - Before you install the 82350 Before y ou install the 82350, you should: • Check Y our S hipment • Check System Requirements • Create an Emergency Repair Disk Check your shipment Y our 82350 Inter face shipment should include the items in Figur e 1[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 4 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide System requiremen ts The follo wing is a list of th e system conf igurations that we tested IO Lib raries 15.5 on and are there- fore guaranteed t o work. In general, any x86 or x64 (except Itanium) should work but there may be a decrease in performance. Windows [...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation an d Configuration Guide 5 Windows VIST A SP1 and SP 2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Business, Ultimate, Enterprise, Home Basic, and Home Premium Processor Speed: 1Ghz 32- bit (x86), 1GH z 64- bit (x64), no suppor t for I t an i um 6 4 A vailable me mor y: 1 GB minimum A vailable hard disk space 1[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 6 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Video: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB graphics memor y recommended (Super VGA grap hic s is sup ported ) Browser: Microsoft Inter net Explorer 7 or g reater Create an emergency repair disk The Agilent IO Libraries Suite includes I/O drivers for various[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation an d Configuration Guide 7 Step 2: Installing the Ag ilent IO Libraries Suite Belo w are the steps on how to install the A gilent IO Libraries Suite, using default settings, including: • Checkin g for I nstalled Agilent IO Li braries or Agilent IO Libraries Suite • Installing A gilent[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 8 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide • If this group is display ed, click Agi le nt I O Libraries > Utilities > IO Co ntrol to di spl a y the IO icon. Then, click the icon and click About Agilent IO Li braries Control to display the installed version (must be 15.0 or great er). • If neithe[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation an d Configuration Guide 9 Installing Agilent IO Libraries Suite This section describes how to install Ag ilent IO Libraries Suite on your PC. The pr ocess is as follo ws: 1 V erify that your PC meets the m inimum system requirements. (See “System Requirements for Agilent IO Libraries S[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 10 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide 3 Close all other applicat ions on your PC. 4 Insert t he A utomation- Ready CD with A gilent IO Libr aries Suit e into the C D- R OM d riv e o f y o ur PC. • W a it a fe w seconds for the auto- r un window to appear . • If the auto- r un window does not app[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 11 7 When the InstallShield Wizard appears, click Nex t > to begi n the IO Li br arie s Su ite s oftw are installation. 8 Read the License A greement(s). If you accept the terms, click t he radio butt on labeled I accept the t erms of t he license agreem ent an[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 12 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide 10 If you chose the Cust om setup and you do not have another vendor’s VISA implementation installed on your PC, th en you will see the dia- log bo x belo w , which asks whether you want to install A gilent VISA as the primary VISA. NOTE • If you accept the [...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 13 If yo u do have a not h er ve ndo r’s VISA in st al led , you will see a similar dialog bo x, but the check box will not be selected, indicating t hat the default is to in stall A gilent VISA as secondary. Fo r deta ils on this t opic, see “Using A gilent V[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 14 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide • Click on an y feature in the list to see the fea- ture description and the space requiremen ts for the selected set of features. It is recom- mended that you install the manuals and sam- ple programs if you plan to program with the Agilent IO L ibraries; how[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 15 14 After t he files hav e been copied, you may see a dialog aski ng you to restar t yo ur PC. This occur s only if y ou hav e cert ain I/O hardware configura- tions. If you choose not to reboot at this time, you should reboot bef ore running Connection Expert .[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 16 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide If Connection Exper t is not already running, run it no w to verify y our I/O configuration: In the Windows N otification area, click the IO icon ( ), then click Agilen t Connection Exper t. a Locate your inter faces and instr uments in t he Explorer Pane. Click[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 17 Step 3: Connecting your instruments This step shows ho w to in stall an 82350 in a PCI slot in your PC and how to connect GPIB instruments t o the 82350, including: • Installing t he 82350 in your PC • Connecting instrumen ts to the 82350 Installing the 823[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 18 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide co ver f rom the PC to allo w acce ss to the I/O slots. See your PC documentation for instruct ions. Figure 1-4 Remove t he PC cove r 3 Remov e a Cover Plate. Remo ve one of the PC back panel cov er plates. The 82350B is a 5V PCI card and will not fit in a 3.3V [...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 19 con nec tor sho uld ex tend thr oug h th e ba ck pan el opening to allow GPIB cable connection. If y ou install more t han one 82350, you may want to install t he cards so there is at least on e empty slot between 82350s. When inserting t he 82350, be sure to h[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 20 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide After t he 82350 is installed in your PC, the next step is to connect your GPIB instruments to the installed 82350. Suggest ed steps follo w . When you ha ve made the con nections, go to “Step 4 - Configuring t he 82350”. 1 Review Connection Guidelines. The [...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 21 2 Connect GPIB Cables to the 82350. Connect a separate GPIB cable t o each installed 82350. Tighten the GPI B connector scre ws finger - tight only. (The scre wdriver slots are f or remova l purposes only.) Two examples f ollo w sho wing how to connect a single[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 22 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Example: Connecting Multiple GPIB Instr uments Fig ure 1- 9 sho ws one wa y to connect three GPIB instrument s to an A gilent 82350 GPIB Int erface Card . Y ou m ay wa nt t o r ec ord t he pr ima r y G PI B address of each attached inst rument for future program[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 23 Step 4: Configuring the 82350 This step shows ho w to configure a Windows XP/Vista/7 operating system for a PC that has an 82350 installed. Installing configuration files 1 Apply P o wer . App ly p o w er to the P C an d to th e installed GPIB instr uments. As [...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 24 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Configuring the 82350 interface 1 Open Connection Exper t. Cli ck the Agil en t I O Control icon ( IO icon on the Windows Notification Area) and then click Agi le nt Connection Expert . When t he Connection Expert windo w appears, highli ght the GPIB inter face [...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 25 2 Configure GPIB Card Parameters. When t he Agilent 82350 PCI GPIB Inter face dialog box appears, set the VISA interface ID , SICL inter face ID , Logical unit and GPIB address values as required. Also, verify that this is the System cont roller for the GPIB to[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 26 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide T able 1-1 82350 GPIB interface card configuration parameters VISA Interface ID Symbolic name that VISA uses to uniquely identify this GPIB interface. The default VISA interface ID is GPIB0. The 82350 interface ID for VISA mus t be gin with the string GPIB and h[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 27 3 Repeat Steps for Other Cards. If y ou have installed more than one 82350 in your PC, repeat these steps for the remaining cards. Then, go to “S tep 5 - Com mu nic ati ng w ith Instruments ”.[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 28 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Step 5: Communicating with your instruments After t he 82350 has been configured and you hav e connected your GPIB instruments t o the 82350, t he next step is to verify communication between your PC and the instr uments using the Interactive IO utility. Aft er [...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 29 Interactive IO, including a list of common commands and their meaning s, click Help | Help Top i c s . 3 *IDN? is the default com mand. Click Send & Read to se nd the ide nti fica tio n qu ery to the instrument and displa y its reply in the Interactive IO w[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 30 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide See the applicable User’s Guide, such as t he Vis ua l Basic User’s Guide , for programming guidelines. Y ou can als o find additional programming ex amples using various IO Libraries and instr ument drivers in the instr ument User’s Gui de . After the 823[...]

Installing an d Configuring th e 82350 1 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 31 Example: GPIB Inte rface Configuration An I/O int erface consists of a hardw are inter face and a software inter face. One purpose of the Connection Exper t utility is to associate a unique software int erface ID wit h a hardware inter face. The Agilent IO Libr[...]

1 Installing and Con figuring th e 82350 32 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Figure 1-13 Interface configuration for multiple instru ments 5 82350 GPIB Card #1 Windows PC 3 3 GPIB Instrume nts GPIB Cable Interface VISA /SICL IDs 82350 GPIB Card #2 VISA Inter face I D SICL I nterfac e ID "GP IB0" "gpi b0" "GP IB1&[...]

33 Agilent 82350B PCI GPIB Interface 82350B PCI GPIB Interface Installat ion and Configuration Guide Agilent T echnologies 2 T roubleshooting Guidelines This chapter shows suggested troubleshooting step s for an Agilent 82350 GPIB in terface, including: NOTE Additional trou bleshooting info rma tion appears in the Agilent IO Libraries Suite Online [...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 34 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide T roubleshooting Overview A suggested troubleshooting f low chart for the 82350, installed i nstruments, and the A gilent IO Libraries Suite follo ws. W e suggest that you star t at Step 1 and then go to Step 2 and then to Step 3, as required. Figure 2-1 T roubleshooting o[...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 35 82350 Hardware Checks This section gives guidelines to make har dware troubleshooting checks for the 82350, including: • Check Cables/Connections/Po wer • Check Device Manager • Sound Card Does Not W ork • Data T ransf ers to Devices Fail • Connection Exper t Fi[...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 36 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide 4 Check PC/Instrume nt P ow er- on. V er ify that the PC and all connected GPIB instr uments are functional and are powered ON. V erify th at host computer is not in a Suspended pow er management stat e. 5 Reboot Y our PC. If doing Steps 1, 2, 3 or 4 does not solve the pro[...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 37 If Data T ransfers to Devi ces Fail If devices attached to your ISA (82341) GPIB car d are detected, but data transfers to those devices fail, this is usually caused either by an IRQ conf lict with anot her card or by your system having no IRQs available f or this card. I[...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 38 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide one of them returns TRUE (meaning t hat it handled the inter ru pt). The ISR’s responsibility is to correctly retur n TRUE if its device was interr upting, or F ALSE if not. 4 P erform Driver W orkarounds. Here are some ways to work ar ound drivers that are not behaving [...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 39 6 Upgrade your system BIOS. No te tha t ev en ne w computers may ha ve a new er BIOS available. a Make sure the BIOS Installed O/S setting is set correctly. This det ermines what sof tware will configure all th e Plug and Pla y cards in your system. Either the BIOS or t h[...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 40 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide 82350 Software Checks This section pro vides guidelines for 82350 software checks, including: • Disable Connection Exper t Auto- Discovery • Check BIOS/Interr upts Settings • Set 82350 Read/W rite Performance Mode Disable Connection Expert Auto-Discovery If your PC s[...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 41 conf licts with other drivers in the system. PCI allows sharing of IRQs, but this also m eans the drivers f or cards which share an IRQ must handle inter rupt chain ing properly. Both Windows NT and Windo ws 98 allow multiple drivers to install in terr upt service routine[...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 42 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide be configured using the setup op tion when the PC is booting. 5 Upgrade yo ur system BIOS. New co mpu te rs may hav e a new er BIOS a vailable. When installing a new system BIOS: • Make sure the BIOS Installed O/S setting is set correctly. This det ermines what sof tware[...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 43 The default beha vior of the 82350 driver is to use Po ll in g mode for transfe rs of 256 bytes or less and to us e I nt erru pt mode for larger transfers. Y ou can modify this default behavior by doing the f ollo wing: SICL: The SICL ihint(id, hint) function can b e cal [...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 44 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide • The default for matte d IO read buf fer size is 4096 so when using this default siz e, formatted reads in SICL (with hint = I_HINT_DONTCARE ) and VIS A (with VI_ATTR_DMA_ALL OW_ EN = VI_TRUE ) will use Inter rupt mode even when a small number of bytes are expected. •[...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 45 Agilent IO Libraries Suite Checks This section gives guidelines to troubleshoot problems invol ving the A gilent IO Libraries Suit e, including: • Check IO Libraries Suite In stallation • Check IO Control Operation • Install IO Libraries Suit e (if 82350 was Install[...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 46 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide • If this group is display ed, click Agi le nt I O Libraries Sui te | Utilities | I O Control to display the IO icon. Then, click th e icon and click A bout A gilent IO Control to d ispl a y the installed version (must be version 15 or great er) . • If neither t he IO [...]

Troubleshooting Guidelin es 2 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 47 • Clicking Exit. Clicking the blue IO icon and then cli cki ng Ex it causes a dialog bo x to appear t hat asks you if you want to ter minate the A gilent IO Control. Clicking Ye s hides the blue IO icon and deactivates the IO Control. If the blue IO icon is not displaye[...]

2 Troublesho oting Guidelines 48 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide • Windo ws XP/Vista/7: Star t t he Windows Device Manager as follows: Right- click on My Comput er , select Proper ties , the n the Hardware ta b, the n Device Manager . Find the PCI Simple Communi cations Controller in t he Device Manager , and select Upda t e Dr ive r [...]

49 Agilent 82350B PCI GPIB Interface 82350B PCI GPIB Interface Installat ion and Configuration Guide Agilent T echnologies 3 82350 Specifications and Information This chapter provides general information for the 82350B PCI GPIB Interface .[...]

3 82350 Specifications and Information 50 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide General Requirements Before installing your Agilent 82350, make certain your PC meets or exceeds the following criteria. Ta b l e 3 - 1 lists the general requirements for installing the 82350. T able 3-1 82350 General requirements Minimum system requirements Windo[...]

82350 Specifications and Information 3 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 51 General Characteristics All characteristics are typical per formance values and are not warranted. Ta b l e 3 - 2 lists the general characteristics of the Agilent 82350. T able 3-2 82350 General characteristics Power Backplane +5 V PCI Connectors Standard 24- pin[...]

3 82350 Specifications and Information 52 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide Accessing an Electronic Copy of this Guide There are two wa ys you can access an electronic (.pdf) version of this guide, as follo ws . Y ou will need Adobe A crobat Reader V ersion 3.0 o r later to view the electronic version. 1 Access from the IO Control. After [...]

82350 Specifications and Information 3 82350B Installation and Configurat ion Guide 53 Contacting Agilent Y ou can reach A gilent Technologies at this telephone number in t he United States: Un ited St ates Call Cent er: 1- 800- 829- 4444 For other locations, contact your countr y’s Agilent suppor t organization. A list of cont act information fo[...]

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82350B Installation and Configuration Guide 55 Index A Administrator priv ileges required, 8 Agilent IO Control icon, 19 Agilent VEE, 24 Agilent Web sites, 51 Agilent, contacting, 51 C Changing Configuration Parameters, 34 Changing Modes of Operation, 35 configuration parameters, changing, 34 configuration parameters, setting, 34 Configuring 82350B[...]

56 82350B Installation and Configuration Guide initial operating states, 29 Installing Agilent IO Libraries Suite, 8 installing the 82350A configuring the 82350A, 17 Interactive IO, 23 interface ID, 26 IO Libraries Suite, checking for installation, 8 iopen, 26 L LED states, 29 logical unit number, 26 M Modes of Operation, changing, 35 P PCI Bus Slo[...]

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