04 | Keysight | GPIB, USB and Instrument Control for easy PC-to-Instrument Connections - Data Sheet
Keysight IO Libraries Suite 17.0
System requirements
PC software
Operating system –Windows 8 and 8.1 32-bit and 64-bit (Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows 8 Enterprise)
–Windows 7 SP1 32-bit and 64-bit (Starter, Home Basic, Home, Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise)
–Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise
Editions)
–Windows XP SP3 32-bit (Professional and Home)
–Windows Server 2012 64-bit (Standard)
–Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, 64-bit (Standard and Enterprise)
PC hardware
Processor 600 MHz class (800 MHz or greater recommended)
Hard disk space required 1.5 GB
RAM –256 MB minimum (1 GB or greater recommended)
–Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: 1 GB minimum
Display 1024 x 768 96 or 120 DPI
Input device Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
Device for installation DVD-ROM
Web connection for installation, upgrades and drivers
IO Libraries Media contents
IO Libraries Suite –I/O libraries: VISA, VISA COM, SICL, Keysight 488
–Connection Expert
–I/O utilities
–Full online help for all I/O libraries and utilities
Keysight Command Expert
Version 2.2.1 of the IVI Shared
Components (see
www.ivifoundation.org/)
–Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2
–Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Supported interfaces1
GPIB Standard IEEE 488.1
USB USB 3.0 or lower (with USBTMC-USB488, USBTMC, and Composite protocol)
LAN/Ethernet Standard LAN (with HiSLIP, LXI, VXI-11, SICL-LAN and sockets)
RS-232/Serial
PXI AXIe, PXI, PXIe, PCI and PCIe devices
VXI FireWire (32/64-bit, not supported on Windows 8)
Supported development environments and supported I/O software
VB6 VISA COM, VISA, SICL, Keysight 488, Excel VBA
C/C++ VISA COM, VISA, Keysight 488
.NET languages (VB.NET, C#) VISA COM, VISA, Keysight 488
LabVIEW VISA, Keysight 488
MATLAB VISA
VEE Pro Direct I/O and/or instrument drivers
I/O utilities
Connection Expert Automatically scans your instrument IO, helps you get connected quickly and easily and displays the status of your
instruments and I/O interfaces.
Interactive IO Lets you quickly send commands to instruments and read responses.
IO Monitor Lets you monitor and debug I/O calls made on any of Keysight’s supported buses using SICL, VISA, VISA COM, or
Keysight IVI instrument drivers (drivers released after September 18, 2010)
IO control Provides easy access to the IO Libraries Suite from the Windows system tray.
VXI resource manager
viFind32/viFind64
PXI Chassis Provides a new PXI/AXIe Chassis view showing PXI and AXIe chassis with details of the card in each slot. You can see
chassis and instrument addresses, start soft front panels, make trigger reservations, customize the chassis numbering
in multi-chassis systems, and delete manually-added chassis.
1. See the latest information on supported interfaces and operating systems for IO Libraries Suite 17 at