Program Comments

Creating and Downloading Waveform Files

Programming Examples

As discussed at the beginning of this section, I and Q waveform data is interleaved into one file in 2’s compliment form and a marker file is associated with this I/Q waveform file.

In the Output commands, USING “#,K” formats the data. The pound symbol (#) suppresses the automatic EOL (End of Line) output. This allows multiple output commands to be concatenated as if they were a single output. The “K” instructs HP Basic to output the following numbers or strings in the default format.

10! RE-SAVE "BASIC_Win_file"

20Num_points=200

30ALLOCATE INTEGER Int_array(1:Num_points*2)

40DEG

50FOR I=1 TO Num_points*2 STEP 2

60Int_array(I)=INT(32767*(SIN(I*360/Num_points)))

70NEXT I

80FOR I=2 TO Num_points*2 STEP 2

90Int_array(I)=INT(32767*(COS(I*360/Num_points)))

100NEXT I

110PRINT "Data Generated"

120Nbytes=4*Num_points

130ASSIGN @PSG TO 719

140ASSIGN @PSGb TO 719;FORMAT MSB FIRST

150Nbytes$=VAL$(Nbytes)

160Ndigits=LEN(Nbytes$)

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170Ndigits$=VAL$(Ndigits)

180WAIT 1

190OUTPUT @PSG USING "#,K";":MMEM:DATA ""WFM1:data_file"",#"

200OUTPUT @PSG USING "#,K";Ndigits$

210OUTPUT @PSG USING "#,K";Nbytes$

220WAIT 1

230OUTPUT @PSGb;Int_array(*)

240OUTPUT @PSG;END

250ASSIGN @PSG TO *

260ASSIGN @PSGb TO *

270PRINT

280PRINT "*END*"

290END

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