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NAME

Lab::Bus::VICP - VICP bus

VERSION

version 3.700

SYNOPSIS

This is the bus class for the VICP connection used for GPIB communication

my $GPIB = new Lab::Bus::VICP(remote_host=>'myhost' );

or implicit through instrument and connection creation:

my $instrument = new Lab::Instrument::LeCroy640({
  connection_type => 'VICP',
  remote_addr => 'myhost',
}

DESCRIPTION

Note: you don't need to explicitly handle bus objects. The Instruments will create them themselves, and existing bus will be automagically reused.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

my $bus = new Lab::Bus::VICP(
   remote_addr => $ipaddr
 );

Return blessed $self, with @_ accessible through $self->config().

===== TBD below ===

METHODS

connection_new

$GPIB->connection_new({ gpib_address => $paddr });

Creates a new connection ("instrument handle") for this bus. The argument is a hash, whose contents depend on the bus type. For GPIB at least 'gpib_address' is needed.

The handle is usually stored in an instrument object and given to connection_read, connection_write etc. to identify and handle the calling instrument:

$InstrumentHandle = $GPIB->connection_new({ gpib_address => 13 });
$result = $GPIB->connection_read($self->InstrumentHandle(), { options });

See Lab::Instrument::Read().

TODO: this is probably not correct anymore

connection_write

$GPIB->connection_write( $InstrumentHandle, { Cmd => $Command } );

Sends $Command to the instrument specified by the handle.

connection_read

$GPIB->connection_read( $InstrumentHandle, { Cmd => $Command, ReadLength => $readlength, Brutal => 0/1 } );

Sends $Command to the instrument specified by the handle. Reads back a maximum of $readlength bytes. If a timeout or an error occurs, Lab::Exception::GPIBError or Lab::Exception::GPIBTimeout are thrown, respectively. The Timeout object carries the data received up to the timeout event, accessible through $Exception->Data().

Setting Brutal to a true value will result in timeouts being ignored, and the gathered data returned without error.

timeout

$GPIB->timeout( $connection_handle, $timeout );

Sets the timeout in seconds for GPIB operations on the device/connection specified by $connection_handle.

config

Provides unified access to the fields in initial @_ to all the child classes. E.g.

$GPIB_Address=$instrument->config(gpib_address);

Without arguments, returns a reference to the complete $self->config aka @_ of the constructor.

$config = $bus->config();
$GPIB_PAddress = $bus->config()->{'gpib_address'};

CAVEATS/BUGS

Few. Also, not a lot to be done here.

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by the Lab::Measurement team; in detail:

Copyright 2016       Charles Lane
          2017       Andreas K. Huettel

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.