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Using USB Through Virtual COM Ports

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Using USB Through Virtual COM Ports

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  • Author: Ryan Woodham
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is quickly replacing GPIB as the accepted communication protocol between the PC and the instrument. While USB lowers the total cost of instrumentation ownership, upgrading legacy software from GPIB to USB can be difficult. With this concern in mind, USB-enabled ILX Lightwave products utilize a Virtual COM Port to provide a simple programming interface. This application note provides an overview to using Virtual COM Ports both with HyperTerminal and with various programming languages.

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