Installing the Agilent N4916B
6
Assign a VISA Alias Name to the N4916B
If the
Agilent Connection Expert
does not pop up automatically,
click the
Agilent IO Control
icon
in the Windows task bar and
start it from the menu.
1
In the
Instrument I/O
panel,
click
.
“
” is the default
alias name.
UsbInstrument1
UsbInstrument1
2
Click
Change Properties
and change the
alias name to
DATA_OUT or AUXDATA_OUT
depending on the channel (Data Out and
Aux Data Out) used.
This is the alias used by the software.
3
After clicking OK,
the
Agilent Connection Expert
shows a window like the following:
4
In this example, we use the
Agilent Connection Expert
.
If your N4903B uses revision
of the
Agilent IO Libraries Suite, you can run
IO Config
for the same purpose.
IO-Lib 15.5
A VISA alias name is required by the software to
access the N4916B.
The alias name
DATA_OUT or AUXDATA_OUT
is mandatory. You should not use any other
alias name.