Keysight Technologies N5991ST3A SATA, User Manual

Page: 14 / 82

14 Keysight N5991 SATA Test Automation Software Platform User Guide
2 ValiFrame SATA Station
Test Instrument Configuration
Once the SATA station is configured, the instrument addresses must be
set. An example of the instrument configuration is shown in Figure 4 .
Figure 4 SATA Instrument Configuration window
After the installation process, all instruments are configured by default in
Offline mode. In this simulation mode, hardware does not need to be
physically connected to the test controller PC. The ValiFrame can not
connect to any instrument in this mode. In order to control the instruments
that are connected to the PC, the instrument address must be entered.
The address depends on the bus type used for the connection, for
example, GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) or LAN (Local Area
Network). Most of the instruments used in the SATA station require a VISA
(Virtual Instrument System Architecture) connection. To determine the
VISA address, run the VISA Connection Expert (right-click on the Keysight
IO Control icon in the task bar and select the first entry Keysight
Connection Expert ).
Enter the instrument addresses in the Station Configurator , for example,
by copying and pasting the address strings from the Connection Expert
entries. After the address strings have been entered, check the Offline box
to set the instruments needed to be online and then press Check
Connections button to verify that the connections for the instruments have
been established successfully. If anything is wrong in the Instrument
Address, a window is displayed with a message describing the problem.