README.TXT for Agilent E1416 Power Meter
Contents:
1 Introduction
2 VISA Specific Information
2.1 Instrument Addresses
2.2 Executing the Soft Front Panel without VISA
3 Using the E1416 Driver in Application Development Environments
3.1 C/C++
3.2 Microsoft Visual Basic
4.0 Known Defects
5.0 Online Information
6.0 Revision History
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1. Introduction
The help file included with the Agilent E1416 VXIplug&play driver contains
instrument and programming information. This readme file contains
additional information for the VXIplug&play programmer.
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2. VISA Specific Information
The following topics refer to instances when the driver is used with
different versions of VISA.
2.1 Instrument Addresses
When using VXIplug&play instrument drivers, instrument addresses must
be all uppercase letters. Implementation of the addressing scheme is
vendor specific and some vendors support mixed cases. However, for
maximum portability, the instrument address should use uppercase
characters only.
For example: use "VXI0::56::INSTR" instead of "vxi0::56::instr"
2.2 Executing the Soft Front Panel without VISA
The VISA dynamic link library provides a communication library
between your program and the instrument. The SFP may be executed without
VISA or without the HPE1416.dll present. It will do a partial emulation
of the hardware for demo purposes.
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3. Using the E1416 Driver in Application Development Environments
This section offers suggestions on using the hpe1416.dll within
various application development environments.
3.1 C/C++
Refer to your C/C++ manuals for information on linking
and calling .DLLs.
Rebuilding the driver DLL should be done in a different directory than
the one the driver was installed in order to differentiate the changes.
3.2 Microsoft Visual Basic
Refer to the Microsoft Visual BASIC manual for information on calling DLLs.
The BASIC include file is hpe1416.bas, which is contained in the directory
~winntinclude or ~win95include. The ~ refers to the directory in the
VXIPNPPATH variable. By default this is set to C:VXIPNP on Agilent I/O
Libraries revisions prior to J.01.00; or to C:Program FilesVISA on
revisions J.01.00 or later.
4.0 Known Defects
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5.0 Online Information
The latest copy of this instrument driver and other Agilent instrument
drivers are available at the Agilent Technologies customer WWW site:
http://www.agilent.com/find/inst_drivers
The hpe1416 is located in a self-extracting archive file called e1416.exe.
If you do not have Internet access, the drivers can be obtained by
contacting your country support organization. In the US, the phone
number is 800-452-4844. A list of contact information for other
countries is available at:
http://www.agilent.com/find/assist
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6.0 Revision History
A.01.00 May 1, 1996 Initial Release.
A.02.00 Aug 1996
A.02.01 1/1998
hpe1416_32.dll : A.02.01
hps1416.exe : A.02.01
A.02.02 8/1999
hpe1416_32.dll : A.02.01
hps1416.exe : A.02.01
A.02.03 6/2001
Agilent rebranding
hpe1416_32.dll : A.02.02
hps1416.exe : A.02.02