Agilent 34410A

[svas_2311]

Hi All,

I am developing an C# application to control Agilent DMM (Model 34410A) from a remote PC. And i am using IVI-Com drivers for this.

I was able to read the values from instrument when ever i call an API e.g. "dmm.Voltage.DCVoltage.Measure".

But i wanted to repeatedly read the values from instrument depending on the event triggered from user interface.

Can anyone please tell me whether any such API is readily available to continously read measurement values from the instrument to the PC?

[Dennis_Knutson]

A while loop is not part of any instrument api. That would be something you need to implement in your C# code.

[svas_2311]

Thank you very much for the reply Mr.Dennis.

I understood that while loop will not be part of many instrument API's.

But, is it a hard and fast rule to not to have such API?

I was trying to check whether any API is available to read the values from the instrument continously based on a trigger condition and also stop reading the values based on other trigger condition.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I am more familiar with IVI-C but the functions should be similar. There is only the read multiple after you set the trigger. Ivifoundation.org has a list of all of the class functions if you want to check yourself.

[svas_2311]

Thanks for your reply Mr. Dennis