Agilent Technologies N5183A MXG, N5181A/82A, E8663B manual 328

Creating and Downloading User-Data Files

Save and Recall Instrument State Files

//The Agilent VISA library must be installed on your computer for this example to run.

//Important: Replace the visaOpenString with the IP address for your signal generator.

//**************************************************************************************** using System;

using System.IO; using System.Text;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Collections;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace State_Files

{

class MainApp

{

// Replace the visaOpenString variable with your instrument's address.

static public string visaOpenString = "TCPIP0::000.000.000.000"; //"GPIB0::19"; //"TCPIP0::ESG3::INSTR";

public const uint DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 30 * 1000;// Instrument timeout 30 seconds.

public const int MAX_READ_DEVICE_STRING = 1024; // Buffer for string data reads. public const int TRANSFER_BLOCK_SIZE = 4096;// Buffer for byte data.

//The main entry point for the application.

[STAThread]

static void Main(string[] args)

{

uint defaultRM;// Open the default VISA resource manager

if (VisaInterop.OpenDefaultRM(out defaultRM) == 0) // If no errors, proceed.

{

uint device;

// Open the specified VISA device: the signal generator

if (VisaInterop.Open(defaultRM, visaOpenString,VisaAccessMode.NoLock, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, out device) == 0)

//if no errors proceed.

{

328 Agilent N518xA, E8663B, E44x8C, and E82x7D Signal Generators Programming Guide