Using Keysight Interface Hardware with Other Vendors' Software

This section contains information specific to the Windows product.

National Instruments (NI) supports the use of Keysight GPIB cards, USB/GPIB interface converters, and VXI devices with their NI-VISA software. There are some configuration steps you need to take to make these system configurations work.

For NI software to recognize Keysight hardware (except for the E5810; see below), you must enable the NI-VISA Passport for Tulip. This is a software module included with NI-VISA for support of Keysight hardware, and it is not enabled by default.
For GPIB card configuration, see Configuring a Keysight GPIB Card for Use with National Instruments VISA.
For configuration of the Keysight 82357, see Configuring a Keysight 82357 USB/GPIB Interface Converter for Use with National Instruments VISA.
You do not need to enable the NI-VISA Passport for Tulip to use the Keysight E5810 LAN/GPIB Gateway with NI software. Because the E5810 uses the VXI-11 protocol, the NI software recognizes it with no special configuration.
If you have installed both Keysight GPIB interface hardware and NI-488.2 (or another vendor's compatible software) on the same system, and you are programming with (or running programs that employ) NI-488.2, Keysight 488, or another vendor's compatible 488 library, then you must enable the Keysight 488 library as described in the Keysight 488 Help.
You do not need to install National Instruments' NI-VXI in order to use NI-VISA to talk to Keysight VXI interfaces. You only need to enable the NI-VISA Passport for Tulip, as described above.

Using Keysight Interface Hardware with Other Vendors' Software

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