SICL and Direct I/O: Find All GPIB and VXI Instruments Read Me

This sample program uses the DynamicIO automation server to find all available interfaces, instruments and DMMs.

Date: Sep 2003

Version: 1.0

Language: Agilent VEE Pro

Instruments: SCPI Instruments

OS Requirements: Microsoft® Windows® 98 SE, NT® 4.0, ME, 2000, or XP

Additional Software: Agilent IO Libraries M.01.01.04 (or later)

This sample program uses the DynamicIO automation server to find all available interfaces, instruments and DMMs. The ClearInstrumentModelDB method clears the server's internal copy of the instrument database. FindAllInterfaces and FindAllInstrs methods work without the database but the FindAllDMMs method does not. The Reset method restores the server's default states including the default instrument model database. The SelectInterface property sets the type of interface to use in the subsequent calls to the Find method. In this case we limit the search to the GPIB interface. The ExcludeAddrsFromQuery method excludes bus address(es) from subsequent identification of instrument(s) at the specified address(es). After the reloading of the default instrument database by Reset the second FindAllDMMs call finds DMM(s) if any is connected.

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