Keysight M8194A - Communication

106 Keysight M8194A 120 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Guide
4 Remote Programming
Communication
Depending on the command line arguments /Socket, /Telnet, /Inst,
/AutoID, /NoAutoID, /FallBack, the Soft Front Panel starts several servers
to handle SCPI commands. (Refer to the table above.)
• /Socket, /Telnet, /Inst, /HiSLIP: If -1, don’t start the respective servers
Defaults:
• Socket port: 5025 (e.g. TCPIP0::localhost::5025::SOCKET)
• Telnet port: 5024
• HiSLIP: 0 (e.g. TCPIP0::localhost::hislip0::INSTR)
• VXI-11.3: 0 (e.g. TCPIP0::localhost::inst0::INSTR)
• /FallBack: If starting a server fails because of a conflict, try using
another port or number
• HiSLIP, VXI-11.3: increase the index until a server can be started
successfully
• Socket, Telnet: start with port 60000, then increase it until the
servers can be started successfully. If neither socket nor telnet is
disabled the Soft Front Panel tries to start the servers on two
consecutive ports (socket port = telnet port + 1)
• /AutoID: Automatically select ports and number for the connections,
which are unique per instrument.
This is the default behavior; it is not necessary to specify this argument
on the command line.
If only one AXIe module is connected to this PC and it is an M8194
module, first try to use the command line arguments /Socket, /Telnet,
/Inst, or their respective default values if they are not specified. If
starting the servers fails, proceed with the steps below.
/Socket, /Telnet, /Inst, /HiSLIP are ignored (unless they are -1 and a
server is disabled)
If the Soft Front Panel detects more than one AXIe module, use a
special mechanism to obtain a number for the HiSLIP and VXI-11.3
servers, which makes sure that the Soft Front Panel uses always the
same VISA resource string per module
The socket and telnet port are then calculated from the HiSLIP index:
• telnet port = 60000 + 2 * <HiSLIP index>
• socket port = 60000 + 2 * <HiSLIP index> + 1
NOTE
Ports may already be in use by Windows or other applications, so they
are not available for M8194A.