Instrument Control Toolbox

The GPIB-VXI Interface

The GPIB-VXI interface is associated with a GPIB-VXI command module that you install in slot 0 of a VXI chassis. This interface, along with the other relevant hardware, is shown below.

The GPIB-VXI interface is supported through a VISA-GPIB-VXI object. The features associated with a VISA-GPIB-VXI object are similar to the features associated with GPIB and VISA-VXI objects. Therefore, only functions and properties that are unique to VISA's GPIB-VXI interface are discussed in this section. These unique features are associated with

• Creating a VISA-GPIB-VXI object
• The VISA-GPIB-VXI address

Refer to Controlling GPIB Instruments to learn about writing and reading text and binary data, using events and callbacks, using triggers, and so on. Refer to Register-Based Communication to learn about accessing VXI registers.

Note    The VISA-GPIB-VXI object does not support the spoll and trigger functions, or the BusManagementStatus, HandshakeStatus, InterruptFcn, TriggerFcn, TriggerLine, and TriggerType properties.

Register-Based Communication

Creating a VISA-GPIB-VXI Object