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Agilent Technologies IVI-COM driver and VISA-COM I/O programming

examples in Microsoft Visual C# ............................................................................3

What is an instrument driver? .................................................................................3

What is an IVI driver? ................................................................................................3

What is an IVI-COM driver? ......................................................................................4

What is Visual C#? ....................................................................................................4

What is VISA-COM? ...................................................................................................4

Installation instructions for IVI drivers ........................................................................6

Step 1: Installing a VISA library for low-level hardware I/O .............................6

1.1 Download and un-zip the software package ..........................................6

1.2 Install the NI-488.2 software and select appropriate features............7

Step 2: Installing the IVI shared components ......................................................8

2.1 Download the latest MSI or EXE package ..............................................8

Step 3: Installing the Agilent Technologies IVI drivers.......................................9

3.1 Download the latest MSI or EXE package ..............................................9

VISA-COM programming examples in Visual C# .......................................................10

4.1 Referencing VISA-COM libraries in Microsoft Visual Studio (VC#) ...10

4.2 Using VISA-COM library references in your program code ..................11

4.3 Communicating with an instrument using the VISA-COM library ......12

4.4 10-second BER measurement example using the N4962A

serial BERT 12.5 Gb/s and N4963A clock synthesizer

13.5 GHz with a VISA-COM library in Visual C# ....................................12

4.5 Example code output ..................................................................................14

4.6 Useful code snippets ..................................................................................14

IVI-COM Programming Examples in Visual C# ..........................................................16

5.1 Referencing IVI-COM drivers in Microsoft Visual Studio (VC#) .........16

5.2 Using IVI-COM driver references in your program code.......................18

5.3 Communicating with an instrument using the IVI-COM driver ...........18

5.4 10-second BER measurement example using the N4962A

serial BERT 12.5 Gb/s and N4963A clock synthesizer

13.5 GHz with an IVI-COM driver in Visual C#.......................................18

5.5 Useful code snippets for programming the N4965A-CTR

multi-channel BERT controller ..................................................................21

Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................22

Appendix A: End User License Agreement .................................................................23

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