The HP 54110 D oscilloscope's driver can't talk with it.

[Linghui]

I used Labview-based driver (5.0 version) to talk with HP 54110D Digitizing Oscilloscope, and the driver was from NI company. I bought a 82357A USB/GPIB Interface cable (a product from Agilent Tech.), and I followed the user's guide, and I sured that I suceed in installing the driver, and checked the cable and it was in good condition and then connect with the Oscilloscope, but there is no response when I run it's driver. I want to know how to solve this problem?
Though the interface of oscilloscope is HPIB, there should no problem to connect GPIB.
Sincerely,
Linghui

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[Dennis_Knutson]

I'm not familiar with the Agilent USB device. Does the instrument driver use VISA or GPIB commands. If VISA, did you install the Agilent VISA driver? I think you also need to enable Tulip support in MAX (Tools>NI-VISA>VISA Options). If the driver uses GPIB commands, Then you either have to change your Agilent GPIB interface for an NI one or modify the driver to use VISA commands or the Agilent commands. The GPIB commands in LabVIEW only work with NI hardware. The same is true of Agilent. Their GPIB command language only works with Agilent cards and not NI cards. VISA is much nicer in that it is portable. Applications written with VISA will work on GPIB boards from different vendors.

[pc macdonald]

Linghui wrote in message news:<5065000000080000005FFF0000-1079395200000@exchange.ni.com>...
> I used Labview-based driver (5.0 version) to talk with HP 54110D
> Digitizing Oscilloscope, and the driver was from NI company. I bought
> a 82357A USB/GPIB Interface cable (a product from Agilent Tech.), and
> I followed the user's guide, and I sured that I suceed in installing
> the driver, and checked the cable and it was in good condition and
> then connect with the Oscilloscope, but there is no response when I
> run it's driver. I want to know how to solve this problem?
> Though the interface of oscilloscope is HPIB, there should no problem
> to connect GPIB.
> Sincerely,
> Linghui

Here's what you likely need to do:

1) Install all the NI stuff you n
eed -- FIRST, or AGAIN.

2) Install Agilent's IO Suite that came with your 82357A interface in
a side-by-side mode with NI's software. (M.01.01.04 or greater, plus
the three patches you can get from www.agilent.com/find/adn for
M.01.01.04)

[Agilent's installer will detect the NI stuff and ask you how to
proceed.]

NOTE THAT YOU MUST INSTALL AGILENT I/O SECOND, BECAUSE NI'S SUITE WILL
OVERWRITE THE AGILENT SOFTWARE NECESSARY TO TALK TO THE 82357A
INTERFACE.

3) Plug in the 82357A. The Agilent VISA software will auto configure
it. Accept all defaults, unless you already have another GPIB
installed, then specify the an appropriate VISA name such as GPIB1, or
whatever is required to prevent conflict with an existing resource.

4) Configure NI Software to Recognize Agilent Interfaces:
Start button - Programs - National Instruments - Measurement and
Automation Explorer. Tools pulldown menu - NI-VISA - Passport Editor.
Put a checkmark in the "NIVisaTulip.dll - VISA Library Passport for

Tulip" line. Click the OK button as many times as you need to. Exit
to exit MAX.

That's worked for me with both the Agilent 82350A and 82357A.

pc