106 Chapter2
Programming Fundamentals
Using the LAN to Control the Analyzer
Using SICL LAN to Control the Analyzer
SICL LAN is a LAN protocol using the Standard Instrument Control
Library (SICL). It provides control of your analyzer over the LAN, using
a variety of computing platforms, I/O interfaces, and operating systems.
With SICL LAN, you control your remote analyzer over the LAN with
the same methods you use for a local analyzer connected directly to the
controller with the GPIB. More information about SICL LAN can be
found in the HP Standard Instrument Control Library user’s guide for
HP-UX, part number E2091-90004.
Your analyzer implements a SICL LAN server. To control the analyzer,
you need a SICL LAN client application running on a computer or
workstation that is connected to the analyzer over a LAN. Typical
applications implementing a SICL LAN client include
• HP/Agilent VEE
• HP/Agilent BASIC
• National Instrument’s LabView with HP/Agilent VISA/SICL client
drivers
NOTE The SICL LAN protocol is Agilent’s implementation of the VXI-11
Instrument Protocol, defined by the VXIbus Consortium working group.
At the time of the publication of this manual, National Instruments’
VISA does not support the VXI-11 Instrument Protocol. However,
future revisions of National Instruments VISA will support the VX-11
protocol. Contact National Instruments for their release date.
SICL LAN can be used with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT,
and HP-UX.
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