Communicating With Instruments

The Nimbus Template Library includes a wide variety of functions used to communicate with an instrument. These functions greatly simplify I/O programming by wrapping lower-level calls to the underlying I/O library. The low-level I/O library that is actually used depends upon the I/O selection made in the I/O Page of the Driver Settings Editor. In most cases, the underlying I/O library will either be standard C-based VISA (visa32.dll) or VISA-COM. However, Nimbus can support any arbitrary mechanism for I/O communication.

The topics in this section explain the various options for communicating with an instrument using Nimbus.