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Introduction to Programming X-Series Applications
VISA Driver Options
The Agilent IO Libraries Suite includes the following libraries:
Item
Library Name
Documentation Location & Notes
1
Agilent Virtual Instrument Software
Architecture (VISA)
1
1. Note that using VISA functions and SICL functions in the same I/O application is not supported.
The VISA API is a programming interface originally
developed and standardized by the VXIplug&play
Alliance (now the
IVI Foundation
) as an industry-wide
standard for communicating with instruments over
various hardware interfaces. The definition includes
the standard
visa.h
header file for use with C and
C++, which provides declarations for the
visa32.dll
library.
Additionally, Agilent has developed the header files
visa32.cs
and
visa32.bas
, to permit the VISA
DLL to be used with C#.NET and Visual Basic.NET
respectively.
For more information, see the VISA Documentation
Help in the
Agilent I/O Libraries Suite
.
2
VISA for the Common Object Model
(VISA COM)
1
The VISA COM I/O API is a programming interface
standardized by the
IVI Foundation
for
communicating with instruments over various
hardware interfaces.
Agilent Technologies offers an implementation of the
VISA COM I/O standard that is compatible with
Agilent hardware as well as computer standard I/O
interfaces. VISA COM I/O is an update of the older
VISA C API to work in and with Microsoft’s COM
technology.
For more information, see the VISA COM Help in the
Agilent I/O Libraries Suite
.
3
Agilent Standard Instrument Control
Library (SICL)
1
SICL is compatible only with Agilent interfaces,
whereas VISA is an industry-wide standard.
This library is not described further in this document.
For more information, see the SICL Documentation
Help in the
Agilent I/O Libraries Suite
.
Note that SICL is supported only for the C and VB6
languages; there is no SICL support for .NET
languages.
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