Overview
This chapter will help you control an LCA from your own
computer. The chapter covers how to write your own
applications. The next chapter explains examples based on
Keysight VEE and VBA/Excel in more detail. Note that
applications for remote control can also be run on the LCA
itself, which is useful for automated measurement procedures.
The LCA is a remoting enabled, Microsoft .NET instrument that
can be controlled across any LAN that can relay an http web
page. The provided remote control client has an Active X
interface and a .NET interface, so you can program the LCA
from many established programming environments such as
Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA, as well as from .NET enabled
programming environments such as C#.
The LCA uses .NET remoting as the foundation for its external
communications. Remoting is the process of programs or
distributed components interacting across different processes
or machines.
Beginning with the LCA software version 3.00.03 for Windows
XP systems or 3.01.00 with Window 7, an SCPI interface is
also available, which may be more comfortable for other
environments like Labview. The SCPI interface can be used
over either a LAN or USB port.
This programming guide supports LCA models beginning
with the B generation. These now include: N4373D, N7373C,
N4373B, N4374B, N4375D, N4375B, N4376D and N4376B.
Remote Operation
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