IBASIC

In This Chapter

The TESTS

Subsystem and

IBASIC

Instrument BASIC

Agilent Technologies 8922M/S Instrument BASIC Overview

Agilent Technologies 8922M/S Instrument BASIC Overview

The Agilent 8922M/S contains an HP Instrument BASIC computer that can run programs to control the Agilent 8922M/S and any connected GPIB equipped instruments. This provides a powerful test instrument and test system controller in one package.

Programs can be written on an external computer and loaded into the

Agilent 8922M/S, or can be typed directly into the Agilent 8922M/S’s Instrument BASIC computer. Programs can then be stored on memory cards.

The rest of this section of the manual refers to the HP Instrument BASIC Language known as IBASIC.

The information in this chapter is divided into two broad categories: general information about IBASIC, and information about IBASIC programming using the TESTS subsystem.

The general information category contains four sections:

Configuration and Instrument Control

Loading, Storing, and Running

Entering and Editing Programs

Memory Cards

The IBASIC programming category contains information on structuring IBASIC programs to run in the TESTS subsystem and some of the features of the TESTS subsystem that can be used in writing programs.

The IBASIC programming category contains one section:

Programming and Using the TESTS Subsystem

The Agilent 8922M/S’s IBASIC computer is the “core” of an automated test environment referred to as the TESTS subsystem. This environment is available by accessing the TESTS screen.

Programs can also be written that do not use the special TESTS subsystem capabilities, using only the IBASIC computer core.

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