Keysight Technologies 8163A/B - GPIB Interfacing in Keysight VEE

258 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes Programming Guide
7 The Keysight 816x VXIplug&play Instrument Driver
GPIB Interfacing in Keysight VEE
Keysight VEE supports interfacing with an instrument from a GPIB card.
Before you can do this, you must do the following:
1 Select Instrument Manager from the I/O menu.
2 Double-click on the
Add button to bring up the Device Configuration
screen, see Figure 9 on page -258.
Figure 9 Device Configuration
3 Enter the following information:
• Name: enter hp816X.
• Interface:
GPIB
• Address: Enter the GPIB address of your GPIB interface board (the
default is 7). Append the GPIB address of your instrument (the default
is 20).
• Gateway: This host.
4Press
Advanced I/O Config ..., the Advanced Device Configuration
box pops up. Select the Plug&play Driver tab, the box in Figure 10 on
page -259 appears.
NOTE
To find out or change the instrument’s GPIB address, press the Config hardkey
on the instrument’s front panel and choose GPIB address. The instrument’s GPIB
address appears, you may edit it if you wish.