Agilent Technologies N5181A/82A, N5183A MXG, E8663B specs

	Creating and Downloading Waveform Files
	Downloading Waveform Data

Line	Code Description—Download the I/Q data

9	Calculate the total number of bytes, and store the value in the integer variable defined in line 8.
	In this code, numsamples contains the number of waveform points, not the number of bytes. Because it takes
	four bytes of data, two I bytes and two Q bytes, to create one waveform point, we have to multiply
	numsamples by four. This is shown in the following example:
	numsamples = 500 waveform points
	numsamples ⋅ 4 = 2000 (four bytes per point)
	bytesToSend = 2000 (numsamples ⋅ 4)
	For information on setting the number of waveform points, see “1. Create I and Q data.” on page 213.

10	Create a string large enough to hold the bytesToSend value as characters. In this code, string s is set to 20
	bytes (20 characters—one character equals one byte)

11	Create a string and set its length (cmd[200]) to hold the SCPI command syntax and parameters. In this code,
	we define the string length as 200 bytes (200 characters).

12	Store the value of bytesToSend in string s. For example, if bytesToSend = 2000; s = ”2000”
	sprintf() is a standard function in C++, which writes string data to a string variable.

13	Store the SCPI command syntax and parameters in the string cmd. The SCPI command prepares the signal
	generator to accept the data.
	• strlen() is a standard function in C++, which returns length of a string.
	• If bytesToSend = 2000, then s = “2000”, strlen(s) = 4, so
	cmd = :MEM:DATA ”WFM1:FILE1\” #42000.

14	Send the SCPI command stored in the string cmd to the signal generator, which is represented by the session
	id.
	• iwrite() is a SICL function in Agilent IO library, which writes the data (block data) specified in the string
	cmd to the signal generator (id).
	• The third argument of iwrite(), strlen(cmd), informs the signal generator of the number of bytes in the
	command string. The signal generator parses the string to determine the number of I/Q data bytes it
	expects to receive.
	• The fourth argument of iwrite(), 0, means there is no END of file indicator for the string. This lets the
	session remain open, so the program can download the I/Q data.

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N5183A, N5183A MXG, E8663B, N5181A/82A specifications

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