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type to provide a one-stop location for their control. Essentially, all that these<br />

Servers do is generate GPIB command strings and parse GPIB response strings.<br />

These strings are sent and read via calls to the respective GPIB Servers.<br />

As<br />

an example, the Anritsu Server provides a Setting that allows another LabRAD<br />

Module to set the output frequency <strong>of</strong> the microwave generator to a given value.<br />

Thanks to the automatic unit conversion in the LabRAD Manager, this Setting<br />

can be called with a “Value” with any units compatible with MHz. The Manager<br />

will convert the value to MHz (e.g. 6.8 GHz to 6800 MHz) and the Anritsu server<br />

will create the correct GPIB command (OF6800MH) and pass it on to the right<br />

GPIB Server.<br />

7.5.17 GPIB Server<br />

The GPIB Server, much like the Serial Server, provides direct access to all<br />

GPIB bus controllers connected to the computer that it is running on. It can<br />

provide a list <strong>of</strong> connected devices, select an active device, and communicate with<br />

the device using timeouts. One copy <strong>of</strong> this Server is run on every computer that<br />

needs to share access to its GPIB buses. To give each <strong>of</strong> these Server Modules a<br />

unique name, “GPIB Server” is prefixed with the name <strong>of</strong> the computer that it is<br />

running on.<br />

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