W1138A Datasheet, PDF (4/14 Pages) Keysight Technologies – GPIB, USB and Instrument Control for easy PC-to-Instrument Connections

04 | Keysight | GPIB, USB and Instrument Control for easy PC-to-Instrument Connections - Data Sheet
Keysight IO Libraries Suite 17.0
System requirements
PC software
Operating system
–– Windows 8 and 8.1 32-bit and 64-bit (Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows 8 Enterprise)
–– Windows 7 SP1 32-bit and 64-bit (Starter, Home Basic, Home, Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise)
–– Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise
Editions)
–– Windows XP SP3 32-bit (Professional and Home)
–– Windows Server 2012 64-bit (Standard)
–– Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, 64-bit (Standard and Enterprise)
PC hardware
Processor
600 MHz class (800 MHz or greater recommended)
Hard disk space required
1.5 GB
RAM
–– 256 MB minimum (1 GB or greater recommended)
–– Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: 1 GB minimum
Display
1024 x 768 96 or 120 DPI
Input device
Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
Device for installation
DVD-ROM
Web connection for installation, upgrades and drivers
IO Libraries Media contents
IO Libraries Suite
–– I/O libraries: VISA, VISA COM, SICL, Keysight 488
–– Connection Expert
–– I/O utilities
–– Full online help for all I/O libraries and utilities
Keysight Command Expert
Version 2.2.1 of the IVI Shared
Components (see
–– Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2
–– Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
www.ivifoundation.org/)
Supported interfaces¹
GPIB
Standard IEEE 488.1
USB
USB 3.0 or lower (with USBTMC-USB488, USBTMC, and Composite protocol)
LAN/Ethernet
Standard LAN (with HiSLIP, LXI, VXI-11, SICL-LAN and sockets)
RS-232/Serial
PXI
AXIe, PXI, PXIe, PCI and PCIe devices
VXI
FireWire (32/64-bit, not supported on Windows 8)
Supported development environments and supported I/O software
VB6
VISA COM, VISA, SICL, Keysight 488, Excel VBA
C/C++
VISA COM, VISA, Keysight 488
.NET languages (VB.NET, C#) VISA COM, VISA, Keysight 488
LabVIEW
VISA, Keysight 488
MATLAB
VISA
VEE Pro
Direct I/O and/or instrument drivers
I/O utilities
Connection Expert
Automatically scans your instrument IO, helps you get connected quickly and easily and displays the status of your
instruments and I/O interfaces.
Interactive IO
Lets you quickly send commands to instruments and read responses.
IO Monitor
Lets you monitor and debug I/O calls made on any of Keysight’s supported buses using SICL, VISA, VISA COM, or
Keysight IVI instrument drivers (drivers released after September 18, 2010)
IO control
Provides easy access to the IO Libraries Suite from the Windows system tray.
VXI resource manager
Provides configuration of the IEEE 1394 connection from PC to VXI.
viFind32/viFind64
Debug utility uses VISA functions to find resources and lists them ina console window.
PXI Chassis
Provides a new PXI/AXIe Chassis view showing PXI and AXIe chassis with details of the card in each slot. You can see
chassis and instrument addresses, start soft front panels, make trigger reservations, customize the chassis numbering
in multi-chassis systems, and delete manually-added chassis.
1.  See the latest information on supported interfaces and operating systems for IO Libraries Suite 17 at www.keysight.com/find/iolib_revmatrix