IO Libraries Suite

Accelerate Instrument Connection and Control with IO Libraries

• Automatically detects instruments connected to your PC and configures the interfaces.

• Enables instrument communication for a variety of development environments (Mathworks MATLAB, Python, NI LabVIEW, Microsoft Visual Studio, and more).

• Compatible with most common instruments.

• The Windows product includes support for AXIe, PXI, GPIB, USB, Ethernet/LAN, RS-232, and VXI test instruments from a variety of vendors.

• Windows users can also download popular Keysight software such as BenchVue and Command Expert to work with IO Libraries.

• The Linux product includes support for GPIB, USB, Ethernet/LAN, and RS-232.

IO Libraries for Windows 11

IO Libraries Suite introduces support for Windows 11 on ARM (64-bit x86 emulated applications or ARM64EC applications), which includes LAN (HiSLIP, VXI-11/SICL-LAN, and SOCKET), USB/GPIB, USBTMC, PXI, AXIe, PXI, PXIe, and PCIe devices, RS-232, Remote GPIB, and Remote USB.

Getting Started is Easy!

1. Install Keysight IO Libraries Suite software on your PC.

2. Connect the interface cables between your chassis and/or instruments and your PC.

3. Detect interfaces, chassis, and instruments and configure them using Keysight Connection Expert.

4. In just minutes you have an error-free connection that simply works.

Fast and Easy Access to your Test and Measurement Equipment from your PC

Connection Expert is an easy-to-use software for discovering and connecting instruments on Windows, Windows-on-ARM, or Linux PC. You can quickly add a new Instrument or I/O Interface and access their Web UI.

Connection Expert allows you to discover and verify instruments. Additionally, you can update IVI instrument drivers and soft front panels from the instrument properties in Windows. As a result, you save time and ensure your application uses the latest driver.

Save time with the bundled tools IO Monitor and Interactive IO, which can be launched from within Connection Expert.

IO Monitor, Interactive IO, and Included APIs

• IO Monitor lets you monitor and trace instrument I/O traffic, greatly simplifying and speeding up the debugging process.

• Interactive IO lets you quickly send commands to instruments and read responses.

• Use the Keysight IO Libraries APIs to control your instruments or other devices from your custom automation software. APIs are available to support a wide variety of programming languages, hardware interface types, and industry-standard I/O library layers.

• Get up to 5x faster data transfers with the HiSLIP protocol for LAN-based instruments – HiSLIP speed is faster than any other current interface, and for some instruments can approach the theoretical limit of Gigabit LAN for TCP/IP connections. Easily convert an existing VXI-11 program to HiSLIP by simply changing the address string.

Quick Access to Test and Measurement Equipment from your PC

Support for modular instruments (Windows-only) - Keysight VISA and Connection Expert support modular instruments such as PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation), AXIe (ATCA eXtensions for Instrumentation), and PCIe® (PCI EXPRESS®) devices. The PXI Resource Manager will discover and display both chassis and modules.