What is SICL?
Agilent Standard Instrument Control Library (SICL) is an I/O Library developed
by Agilent (HP) that is portable across many interfaces and systems. SICL is a
modular instrument communications library that works with a variety of
computer architectures, I/O interfaces, and operating systems. Applications
written in C/C++ or Visual Basic using this library can be ported at the
source code level from one system to another with no (or very few) changes.
SICL uses standard, commonly used functions to communicate over a variety of
interfaces. For example, a program written to communicate with a particular
instrument on a given interface can also communicate with an equivalent
instrument on a different type of interface.
What is VISA?
Agilent Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA) is an I/O Library
designed according to the VXIplug &play System Alliance that allows software
developed from different vendors to run on the same system.
Use VISA if you want to use VXIplug&play instrument drivers in your
applications, or if you want the I/O applications or instrument drivers that
you develop to be compliant with VXIplug&play standards.
可以使用iosetup来对相关的设备进行设置，在设置完成后，可以使用iclear使得设置生效。