Hints and Tips for using non-Keysight chassis and controllers
Instrument drivers
It is critical to have an instrument software driver for the M937X. For M937X, the instrument driver is made up of multiple
layers such as kernel driver, VISA library, and IVI driver, and they work together to control M937X.
These drivers can be installed with the Keysight I/O libraries and M937X firmware.
Device manager
As a result of installing IO library and soft front panel, required drivers are installed in the system, and devices can be
observed in the Windows Device Manager. Below is example of two M937X modules in the Device Manager.
Viewing the PCI devices using Windows Device Manager is a good check of the status of the modules and the drivers. This
view tells us the modules were successfully enumerated during boot time and the instrument kernel drivers are present
and associated with the hardware. These are the first and most important steps to achieve software access to your
instruments.
