Instrument Control Program

Instrument Control Framework (ICF), a software layer embedded in non-Agilent CDS platforms, makes it faster and easier to control Agilent liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) instruments through non-Agilent chromatographic data systems. With Agilent ICF, the operation of your Agilent instrumentation can offer the same world-class instrument control capabilities as in Agilent chromatography data systems. Agilent has developed a robust and popular developer program to supply documentation and support to vendors implementing ICF technology. ICF benefits:

• Enables control of new modules or systems as they become available from Agilent
• Delivers comprehensive user interfaces that seamlessly incorporate most instrument features
• Supports a variety of Non-Agilent chromatography data systems
• Supports a variety of Non-Agilent instrumentation
• Supports Agilent LC modules
• Supports Agilent GC models
• Over 60 partners are actively using ICF

RapidControl.Net (RC.Net) technology and a generic set of protocols allows instrument vendors to write standardized instrument control drivers. This allows RC.Net drivers to plug into CDS software packages that have utilized the ICF software layer – eliminating the need to write proprietary drivers for each CDS platform. Agilent has developed a robust and popular developer program to supply documentation and support to vendors writing RC.Net drivers or implementing RC.Net technology. RC.NET benefits:

• RC.NET allows drivers to be utilized in multiple CDS platforms
• RC.NET facilitates implementation of drivers for hardware modules independent of the application
• ICF builds layers on the RC.NET drivers, which aggregate multiple RC.NET drivers, resulting in a combined instrument view
• Because multiple drivers can be aggregated, and some of the functionality and synchronization tasks are included in the ICF layer, the application adapter layer is lightweight