Models 707B and 708B Switching Matrix Reference Manual
Section 2: General operation
707B-901-01 Rev. B / January 2015
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Installation troubleshooting
If problems occur during installation, it might be helpful to install the components individually. Errors
messages might appear that will help you resolve the installation issue.
If problems occur during installation:
1. Rerun the KIOL installer. Note where the installer unpacks the files (usually in a temporary
folder).
2. Cancel the installer.
3. Go to the folder where the files were unzipped.
4. Run the setup.exe for each of the following components in the following order:
IVI Compliance Package (ICP)
NI-VISA
TM
Run-Time Engine
KIOL
Keithley SCPI Driver
5. Ignore all the other folders.
6. Reboot the computer.
Modifying, repairing, or removing Keithley I/O Layer software
The Keithley I/O Layer interconnects many other installers.
To remove all the KIOL components, you need to uninstall the following applications using Control
Panel:
•
National Instruments NI
TM
IVI Compliance Package
•
National Instruments NI-VISA
TM
Run-Time Engine
•
IVI Shared Components
•
Visa Shared Components
•
Keithley SCPI Driver
After uninstalling components, reboot the computer.
Addressing instruments with VISA
VISA allows you to communicate with the instrument on different communication buses by changing a
resource string that gets passed in with the viOpen function, in VISA-C, or with the Open method on
the VISA-COM resource manager object.
For detailed information about the format of the resource string, refer to the VISA specification
VPP4.3 at the IVI Foundation website, or refer to the help file provided by the vendor of the VISA
implementation you are using.
The following sections describe the resource strings for some of the communication types that
Keithley supports. Any field that has [] (square brackets) around it is optional and will revert to a
default value.