HP 8360 Program Comments, l-94Getting Started Programming

70OUTPUT Source;"*RST;FREQ:MODE SWE;STAR 4GHZ ;STOP 5GHZ;:INIT:CONT ON"

80OUTPUT Source;"*SAV 1"

90CLS

100 PRINT "A sweeping state has been saved in REGISTER 1." 110 OUTPUT Source;"*RST;FREQ:CW 1.23456GHZ;:POW:LEV -1DBM" 120 OUTPUT Source;"*SAV 2"

130 PRINT "A CW state has been saved in REGISTER 2."

140 PRINT 'I..... Press Continue"

150 PAUSE

160 OUTPUT Source;"*RCL 1"

170 PRINT "Register 1 recalled. Verify source is sweeping.”

180 PRINT "Press Continue."

190 PAUSE

200OUTPUT Source;"*RCL 2"

210PRINT "Register 2 recalled."

220PRINT "Verify source is in CW mode.'

230END

Run the program.

Program Comments

10: Assign the source’s HP-IB address to a variable.

20 to 50: Abort any HP-IB activity and initialize the HP-IB interface.

60:Clear the computer’s display.

70:Setup the source for a sweeping state. Note the combination of several commands into a single message. This single line is equivalent to the following lines:

OUTPUT Source;"*RST"

OUTPUT Source;"FREQ:MODE SWEep"

OUTPUT Source;"FREQ:STARt 4 GHZ'

OUTPUT Source;"FREQ:STOP 5 GHZ"

OUTPUT Source;"INIT:CONT ON"

80:Save this state into storage register 1.

90:Clear the computer display.

100:Print a message on the computer display.

110:Setup the source for a CW state. Note the combination of several commands into a single message. This single line is equivalent to the following lines:

OUTPUT Source;"*RST"

OUTPUT Source;"FREQ:CW 1.23456 GHZ"

OUTPUT Source;"POWer:LEVel -1 DBM"

120: Save this state into storage register 2.

130 to 150: Print a message on the computer display and pause.

l-94 Getting Started Programming