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Configure the 9099 with Auto-disconnect on when using Agilent's VISA.
Perform the following steps to make a connection to the 9099:
1.
Open the Agilent Connection Expert
2. Verify that a LAN interface has been created else create a new LAN
interface.
3. Highlight the LAN TCPIPO interface and change its properties.
Select VXI-11 and reduce the default timeout to 10 seconds.
4. Click the Add Instrument button on the menu bar. The auto discovery
algorithm should find the 9099 and display a list of found devices.
5. Select the 9099 from the resulting instrument list.
Check Allow IDN query. Uncheck Host Names. Click OK
6. The Connection Expert should verify the device and add it to the
Instrument IO tree.
The user should exit the Agilent Connection Expert after the device is found.
Run ICS’s VXI-Error Log Utility if you experience unstable operation, program
hangups or see the 9099’s ERR LED blinking often. Use the log to debug and
modify your VISA program.
3.7.4 Using Agilent’s SICL Library
Agilent’ SICL Library includes a complete set of VXI-11.2 and VXI-11.3 func-
tions and works well with C language and Visual Basic. It is very stable and
has been around a long time. Agilent’s SICL User's Guide lists all of SICL's
functions and provides easy to follow instructions for creating a LAN Session
and for controlling VXI-11 devices. The SICL help file provides detailed
function explanations. ICS’ Application Note, AB80-2, describes how to write
an interactive Visual Basic program (SICL_kybd) using SICL functions. The
example SICL program can be used as a starting point for your program. The
Application Note, executable and source files may also be downloaded from
ICS’s website.
The hardest part about using the SICL library is setting up the open function
to link to the 9099. The SICL_kybd program has a comboBox where the user
can enter the 9099's IP address. The Create Link button calls the cmdLink
function that closes any open interface links and then opens an interface link
to the 9099's IP address.
The 9099 interface link format is:
intfc = iopen(“lan;vxi-11[192.168.0.254]:inst0”)