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General Settings
8.4.5 Key Brightness
The soft menu key KEY BRIGHT. allows you to set the key
brightness via knob from 0% to 100%. The respective soft
menu item is activated when it is marked in yellow.
8.4.6 Device Name
In this menu, you can select an instrument name. Pressing
the soft menu key DEVICE NAME opens a keypad. Use the
knob to select the letters. You can confirm each letter via
ENTER key (SHIFT). Press the soft menu key ACCEPT to
confirm the entered instrument name.
Fig. 8.4: Enter the device name
9 Remote Control
By default, the ¸HMC8012 includes an Ethernet and a
USB interface
In addition to a LAN interface, the ¸HMC8012 includes
a USB device port. For this interface, the user can select
if the instrument is accessed via virtual COM port (VCP)
or via USB TMC class. The ¸HMC8012 is option-
ally available ex factory with an integrated GPIB interface
(¸HMC8012-G). The GPIB interface has its own inter-
face slot on the rear panel.
9.1 USB VCP
The traditional version of the VCP (virtual COM port) allows
the user to communicate with the HMC using any termi-
nal program via SCPI commands once the corresponding
Windows drivers have been installed. These commands
are generally compatible with the Agilent multimeters
34401A and 34410A. The actual USB-VCP driver can be
downloaded from the Rohde & Schwarz homepage for
free. If a connection between PC and the instrument has
been established and no HMC USB-VCP driver is installed,
the operating system answers with “Found New Hard-
To enable communication, the selected interface and the respec-
tive settings in the instrument must be identical to the selections
for the PC.
Fig. 9.1: Rear panel
All currently available USB VCP drivers have been fully tested and
released for Windows XP™, VISTA™, Windows 7™ and Windows
8™ (32 + 64 Bit).
Fig. 9.2: USB VCP setting