Getting Started
GPIB
To use GPIB (Gen
eral Purpose Interface Bus), start by connecting an appropriate
USB cable to the USB 2.0 high-speed (HS) device port on the rear panel of your
oscilloscope. Connect the other end to the TEK-USB-488 Adapter host port. Then
connect a GPIB cable from the TEK-USB-488 Adapter to your PC.
Supply power to the Adapter in either of these two ways:
1. Use the optional 5 V
DC
power adapter connected to the 5 V
DC
power input
on the Adapter.
2. Use an appropriate USB cable connected to a powered USB host port on your
PC and the Device port on the TEK-USB-488 Adapter.
The oscilloscope has a USB 2.0 high-speed (HS) device port to control the
oscilloscope through USBTMC or GPIB with a TEK-USB-488 Adapter. The
USBTMC protocol allows USB devices to communicate using IEEE488 style
messages. This lets you run your GPIB software applications on USB hardware.
Before setting up the oscilloscope for remote communication using the electronic
(physical) GPIB interface, you should familiarize yourself with the following
GPIB requirements:
A unique device address must be assigned to each device on the bus. No two
devices can share the same device address.
No more than 15 devices can be connected to any one line.
One device should be connected for every 6 feet (2 meters) of cable used.
No more than 65 feet (20 meters) of cable should be used to connect devices
to a bus.
At least two-thirds of the devices on the network should be powered on while
using the network.
Connect the devices on the network in a star or linear configuration. Do not
use loop or parallel configurations.
To function correctly, your oscilloscope must have a unique device address. The
default setting for the GPIB configuration is GPIB Address 1.
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