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Chapter 3 Remote Control RIGOL
DP800A User’s Guide 3-1
Chapter 3 Remote Control
DP800A series power supply can be controlled remotely via the following two modes.
User-defined programming
Users can program and control the instrument by using the SCPI (Standard
Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands. For more information about
the commands and programming, refer to the Programming Guide.
Use PC software provided by RIGOL or other manufacturers
Users can use the PC software Ultra Sigma of RIGOL, Measurement &
Automation Explorer of NI (National Instruments Corporation) or Agilent IO
Libraries Suite of Agilent (Agilent Technologies, Inc.) to send commands to
control the instrument remotely.
This power supply can communicate with PC through USB, LAN, RS232 and GPIB
(with the USB to GPIB interface converter provided by RIGOL) instrument buses.
This chapter will give a detailed introduction of how to use Ultra Sigma to control
the power supply (take DP831A as an example) remotely through various interfaces.
For the Ultra Sigma software, please contact RIGOL salesmen or technical
support.
The contents of this chapter are as follows:
 Remote Control via USB
 Remote Control via LAN
 Remote Control via GPIB
 Remote Control via RS232