Programming Manual
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T3AWG3K-C Series Arbitrary Waveform Generator
True-Arb Operating Mode
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5.
R
EMOTE
C
ONTROL
You can connect your instrument to a network for printing,
fi
le sharing, and Internet access,
among other functions. Consult with your network administrator and use the standard Windows
utilities to con
fig
ure the instrument for your network.
The instrument can be controlled using VXI-11 (LAN) protocol. It allows you to control the
instrument remotely by using SCPI commands. Please refer to the Arb AWG-3000 programmer
manual
for
a
complete
description
about
all
available
commands.
You can follow the next steps to communicate with your AWG-3000 Series instrument:
5.1
Prerequisite
NI-VISA
VISA provides the programming interface between the hardware and development
environments such as Visual Studio .NET, LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Measurement Studio for
Microsoft Visual Studio and MatLab. NI-VISA is the National Instruments implementation of the
VISA I/O standard. NI-VISA includes software libraries, interactive utilities such as NI I/O Trace
and the VISA Interactive Control, and configuration programs through Measurement &
Automation Explorer for all your development needs.
1.
Connect your LAN cable to the instrument.
2.
On the Client-PC you must install the latest NIVISA package that you can find here
http://www.ni.com/download/ni-visa-18.5/7973/en/