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3.7.5 Using Kikusui VISA
Kikusui provides a VISA library that is compliant with IVI VISA specification
5.0. It supports USB, RS-232C, LAN, and GPIB interfaces. It has been tested
and found to be compatible with ICS Electronics' GPIB and LAN interfaces.
You can download the Kikusui Visa (ki-visa) from Kikusui's website at http://
www.kikusui.co.jp/en/download/.
Use ICS's VISAkybd program with the Kikusui VISA to interactively control
instruments. VISAkybd does not have a search and find feature so you will
have to manually enter the instrument's GPIB address or LAN IP address.
3.7.6 Using National Instruments’ VISA and MAX
National Instruments’ VISA comes with the NI Measurement and Automation
Explorer (MAX) and can be downloaded from NI's website. NI's VISA only
has VXI-11.3 capability. When manually running the NI VISA Interactive
Control Panel, run MAX first to define the TCP/IP Resource. Use LabVIEW
version 8.5.1 or later, to minimize problems.
The following steps will let you use MAX to link to the 8099.
1.
Run MAX.
2.
Right click on Devices and Interfaces in the left hand window and
select Create New.
2.
Select VXI TCP/IP Resource from the pop up window. Press Next.
3.
Select VXI-11 LAN Instrument. Press Next.
4.
Select Auto-discovery. Press Next.
5.
Select which instruments to add. Press Finish to save the instru-
ment.
You can now run the VISA Interactive Control Panel.
1.
Select the INSTR TCP/IP Resource you just entered.
2.
Click the Open VISA Session button.
3.
Select the BASIC I/O tab.
4.
Select the Write tab. *IDN? is prefilled in the text box but you can
change it to any command. Press Execute to send the command to
the GPIB device.
5.
Select the Read tab. Press Execute to read the device’s response. Only
execute the read function if you are expecting a reply from the device.
Otherwise you will get a timeout error.
6.
The remaining tabs let you send a Device Trigger or Device Clear to
the device and Serial Poll the device.