These Instrument Drivers may be downloaded free of charge, provided they are used with Agilent Technologies products.

Download IVI-COM Drivers (this link takes you to the Agilent Developer Network)

Download VXIplug&play and Universal Instrument Drivers

Download Panel (Classic) Instrument Drivers for VEE

Download SCPI Drivers for Command Modules

Download I-SCPI Drivers for High Speed Slot-0 Devices

Download Agilent IntuiLink Connectivity Software

There are at least five types of Instrument Drivers:

VXIplug&play Instrument Drivers
Also known as Plug&Play or Universal Instrument Drivers. VXIplug&play is a term indicating conformance to a set of system-level standards, produced by the VXIplug&play Systems Alliance . These standards apply to instrument drivers, soft front panels, installation packages, documentation, technical support and application development environments.

VXIplug&play Frameworks are sets of industry-standard instrument drivers available on popular operating systems such as Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, HP-UX, and others for programming in VEE, C, or Visual BASIC. VXIplug&play drivers allows you to develop application programs that are portable across computer platforms and I/O Interfaces. Instrument manufacturers must specify which of these frameworks are supported. Windows 95 and NT VXIplug&play drivers are recommended for new development.

Panel Instrument Drivers
Also known as Classic, VEE, or ITG Instrument Drivers. A Panel driver is essentially a virtual front panel, and makes instrument programming interactive and graphical. Panel drivers are supported only by VEE.

SCPI Instrument Drivers
Also known as DSCPI (for Downloadable Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) Instrument Drivers. SCPI drivers download into VXI Command Modules (E1300, E1301, E1306, E1405, E1406) and interpret SCPI commands into register-level I/O. It is highly recommended the SCPI driver be installed whether the VXI instrument is programmed using its VXIplug&play driver or using SCPI commands embedded in an I/O language. This information does not apply to message-based modules which have built-in SCPI drivers.

I-SCPI Instrument Drivers
I-SCPI stands for Interpreted Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Register-based VXI modules installed in Embedded VXI Controllers or MXI or VXLink systems (V743, EPC-7, EPC-8, E6232, E1489, E1383, E1483) require an I-SCPI driver to provide programming capability. This information does not apply to message-based modules which have built-in SCPI drivers.