Agilent Technologies E4406A VSA Saving and Recalling Instrument State Data, Programming Examples

Programming Examples

Saving and Recalling Instrument State Data

Saving and Recalling Instrument State Data

This is the C programming example State.c /*************************************************************************** *State.c

*Agilent Technologies 2001

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*HPE4406A VSA Series Transmitter Tester using VISA for I/O

*This program shows how to save and recall a state of the instrument *The C program does the following:

*Open session to GPIB device at address 18 *Check opening session success

*Reset the instrument

*Set the input port to the internal 50Mhz reference source *Zoom the spectrum display

*Tune the analyzer to 50MHZ *Change the resolution bandwidth *Change the Y Axis Scale/Div *Change the display reference level

*Trigger the instrument and wait for it to complete

*Save this state in register 10! Careful this will overwrite register 10 *Display message

*Wait for any key to be pressed *Reset the instrument

*Set again the input port to the internal 50Mhz reference source *Display message

*Wait for any key to be pressed *Recall the state saved in register 10 *Zoom the spectrum display

*Display message

*Wait for any key to be pressed *Reset the instrument

*Set the instrument to continuous sweep *Close session

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