Instructions

Chapter 3 Remote Control RIGOL
User’s Guide for DSA800 Series
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1. General PC software Ultra Sigma of RIGOL
2. Measurement & Automation Explore of NI (National Instrument Corporation)
3. Agilent IO Libraries Suite of Agilent (Agilent Technologies, Inc.)
This section introduces in details how to use Ultra Sigma to send commands
through each kind of interface to control the analyzer. Please refer to Ultra Sigma
Help to install the software and the components required correctly. You can
download the latest version of the software from www.rigol.com.
1. Remote Control via USB
1) Connect the devices
Connect the analyzer (USB Device) with PC (USB Host) using a USB cable.
2) Install the USB drive
As the analyzer is a USBTMC device, after you connect the analyzer to the
PC and turn both on (the analyzer will be configured as USB interface
automatically), the PC will display the “Found New Hardware Wizard”.
Please install the “USB Test and Measurement Device” driver following
the directions of the wizard. For the procedures, refer to “User-defined
Programming”.
3) Search for device resource
Start-up Ultra Sigma. The software starts searching for the analyzer
resources currently connected to the PC; or click
to search
manually.
4) View the resource
The resources found are shown under the “RIGOL Online Resource”
catalog. The instrument model and USB interface information are also
displayed as shown in the figure below.