Agilent Technologies B2201A, B2200A manual Agilent B2200 User’s Guide, Edition

Programming

Programming Examples

Table 4-6	Couple Mode Example
Imports Agilent.TMFramework
Imports Agilent.TMFramework.DataAnalysis
Imports Agilent.TMFramework.DataVisualization
Imports Agilent.TMFramework.InstrumentIO
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim B2200 As New DirectIO("GPIB0::22::INSTR")		'8
Dim channels As String = "(@101,202,303,505)"
B2200.WriteLine("*RST")		'10
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:FUNC ACON")
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:CONN:RULE ALL,SROU")
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:CONN:SEQ ALL,BBM")		'13
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:COUP:PORT ALL,'3,5'")
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:COUP:STAT ALL,ON")		'15
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:CLOS " & channels)
MsgBox("Click OK to start measurement.", vbOKOnly, "")
Console.WriteLine("Measurement in progress. . ." & Chr(10))
'insert the code for measurement		'19
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:COUP:STAT ALL,OFF")
B2200.WriteLine(":ROUT:OPEN:CARD ALL")
B2200.Close()
MsgBox("Click OK to stop the program.", vbOKOnly, "")
Console.WriteLine("Measurement completed." & Chr(10))		'24
End Sub
End Module
Line	Description
8	Defines the channel list in the channels variable (string).
9 to 12	Resets the Agilent B2200. And sets the Auto configuration mode, the Single connection
	rule, and the Break_Before_Make connection sequence.
13 to 14	Sets the couple ports, and turns the couple mode ON.
15	Closes switches to connect the input-output paths specified by channels.
15 to 25	Almost same as the code shown in the lines 13 to 22 of Table 4-3. The command used to
	turn the couple mode OFF has been inserted to the line 19.

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