Measurement Computing Personal488 rev.3.0 For DOS & Windows 3.Xi - Manual (Page 11)

Personal488 User’s Manual, Rev. 3.0 xi
Mode ..........................................................................................................................................II-187
Bus States .................................................................................................................................II-187
Examples...................................................................................................................................II-189
Data Types ............................................................................................................................II-189
Arm Condition Bit Masks ........................................................................................................II-189
Control Line Bit Masks ............................................................................................................II-189
Terminator Structures .............................................................................................................II-189
Status Structure .......................................................................................................................II-190
Completion Code Bit Masks.....................................................................................................II-190
Miscellaneous Constants..........................................................................................................II-190
9L. Command Reference........................................................................... II-190
10. Driver488/W31.......................................................................................... II-191
10A. Introduction ....................................................................................... II-191
10B. Installation & Configuration .......................................................... II-192
Before You Get Started........................................................................................................II-192
Making Backup Disk Copies ..............................................................................................II-193
Driver Installation ..............................................................................................................II-193
Enhanced Mode DMA Transfers .............................................................................................II-194
Configuration Utility ..........................................................................................................II-195
Interfaces ..................................................................................................................................II-195
External Devices.......................................................................................................................II-195
Opening the Configuration Utility ..........................................................................................II-195
Configuration of IEEE 488 Interfaces ..............................................................................II-196
Configuration of IEEE 488 External Devices ..................................................................II-198
Modification of the Initialization File .............................................................................II-199
Driver Core Sections ................................................................................................................II-200
10C. External Device Interfacing ........................................................... II-202
Introduction .........................................................................................................................II-202
Subroutine Calls .......................................................................................................................II-202
Configuration of Named Devices.......................................................................................II-202
Use of External Devices.......................................................................................................II-204
Extensions For Multiple Interfaces...................................................................................II-204
Duplicate Device Names ..........................................................................................................II-205
Access of Multiple Interfaces ...................................................................................................II-205
Example ....................................................................................................................................II-205
10D. Getting Started.................................................................................. II-205
Introduction .........................................................................................................................II-206
C Languages .............................................................................................................................II-206
Visual Basic ..............................................................................................................................II-206
C Languages .........................................................................................................................II-206
Required Headers.....................................................................................................................II-206
Required Libraries ...................................................................................................................II-207
Visual Basic..........................................................................................................................II-207
Required Files...........................................................................................................................II-207
10E. C Languages ...................................................................................... II-208
Accessing from a Windows Program.................................................................................II-208
Opening & Closing the Driver .................................................................................................II-208
Establishing Communications ..........................................................................................II-209
Confirming Communications ............................................................................................II-211
IEEE 488 Event Message .....................................................................................................II-211
Reading Driver Status ........................................................................................................II-213
External Device Initialization...........................................................................................II-214
Basic Data Acquisition .......................................................................................................II-214
Block Data Acquisition.......................................................................................................II-215