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2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide Notices © Agilent T echnologies, Inc. 2005-2007 N o p a rt o f t h i s m a n u a l m a y be r e p r o d u c e d i n any form or by any means (including elec- tronic storage and retrieval or translation into a foreign language) without prior agree- ment and written consen t from A[...]

Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 3 Programming the Osc illoscope—At a Glance Y ou can automat e 6000 Series oscilloscop e setup and data capture by running programs on a controller PC. Just inst all the A gilent IO Libraries Suite software , connect the osci lloscope (using USB, L AN, or GPIB int erfaces), and be[...]

4 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide In This Book This Progr ammer’s Quick Start Guide is your introduction to programming the oscillo scope using an instr ument controller PC. This book and the Progr ammer’s Refer ence , which is supplied as a Microsoft Windows help file on CD, describes the 6000 Series os cillo[...]

Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 5 Contents 1S e t t i n g U p Step 1. Install Agilent IO Libraries Suite software 8 Step 2. Connect and set up the oscilloscope 8 Using the USB (Device) Interface 9 Using the LAN Interface 9 Using the GPIB Interface 10 Step 3. V erify the oscilloscope connection 11 Step 4. Access th[...]

6 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide Reading Definite-Length Block Query Response Data 26 Sending Multiple Queries and Reading Results 27 Checking Instrument Status 27 Other W ays of Sending Commands 28 Te l n e t S o c k e t s 28 Sending SCPI Commands using Browser Web Control 28 Index[...]

7 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Qu ick Start Guide Agilent T echnologies 1 Setting Up Step 1. Install Agil ent IO Libraries Suite software 8 Step 2. Connect and set up the oscilloscope 8 Step 3. V erify the oscilloscope connect ion 11 Step 4. Acc ess the Pr ogrammer’ s Reference 14 This chapter explains how to install t he Agil[...]

8 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 1 Setting Up Step 1. Install Agilent IO Libraries Suite software Inser t th e Aut om at io n-R ea dy CD that was shipped wit h y our oscilloscope into t he controller PC’s CD-ROM driv e, and follo w its inst allation instr uctions. Y ou can also do wnload the A gilent IO Librari[...]

Setting U p 1 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 9 Using the USB (Device) Interface 1 Connect a USB cable from the con troller PC’s USB port t o the “USB DEVICE” port on the back of t he oscilloscope. This is a USB 2.0 high speed por t. 2 On the osci lloscope, verify that t he controller inter face is enabled: [...]

10 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 1 Setting Up Using the GPIB Interface 1 Con nec t a GP IB c able fro m the cont rol ler PC’s GPIB inte r fa ce to th e “G PIB” port on t he back of t he oscilloscope. 2 On the osci lloscope, verify that t he controller inter face is enabled: a Press the Utility butt on. b U[...]

Setting U p 1 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 11 Step 3. V erify the oscilloscope connection 1 On the controller PC, click on th e Agilent IO Control icon in the t askbar and choose A gilent Connection Expert from the popup menu. 2 In the A gilent Connection Exper t applic ation, instruments connected to t he con[...]

12 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 1 Setting Up Y ou must manually add instru ments on LAN int er faces: a Right-click on the L AN inter face, choose Add In s tr u m en t from t he popup menu, and click OK in the resulti ng dialog (because the desired inter face is already selected). b In the next L AN Instr ument[...]

Setting U p 1 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 13 b In th e Agil ent Inter acti ve IO a ppli cati on, enter comm ands in th e Command fi eld and press Send Command , Read Response , or Send & Read . c Choose Connect>Exit fr om th e men u to e xit th e Agil ent I nter acti ve IO application. 4 In the A gilen[...]

14 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 1 Setting Up Step 4. Access the Programmer’ s Reference The Pr og ram m er ’s Re fere nc e is supplied on CD as a help f ile readable with the Microsoft Windo ws help view er . The Pr ogrammer’s Ref erence help file describes oscilloscope comm and syntax and st atus reporti[...]

15 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Qu ick Start Guide Agilent T echnologies 2 Getting Started Basic Oscilloscope Program Structure 16 Programming the Oscilloscope 18 This chapter gives y ou an ov erview of programming the 6000 Series oscilloscopes. It describes basic oscilloscope program str ucture and sho ws ho w to program t he o[...]

16 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Basic Oscilloscope Program Structure The f ollowing figure shows the basic stru cture of ev er y program you will write for the oscilloscope. Initializing T o ensure consistent, repeat able per for mance, you need to star t the prog ram, controller , and oscillo[...]

Getting Started 2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 17 Capturing Data Once yo u initialize the oscilloscope, you can be gin capturing data for anal ysis. Remember t hat while the osc illoscope is responding t o commands from the controller , it is not per forming acqu isitions. Also, when you change the oscilloscop[...]

18 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Programming the Oscilloscope Referencing the IO Library No matter which instr ument programming libr ar y you use (SICL, VISA, or VISA COM), you mu st refe rence the librar y fr om your pr ogram. In C/C++, y ou must tell the compiler where to find the include an[...]

Getting Started 2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 19 Opening the Oscilloscope Conne ction via the IO Library PC controllers communicate with t he oscilloscope by sending and receiving messages o ver a remote inter face. Once you ha ve opened a connection to the oscilloscope ov er t he remote int erface, prog ramm[...]

20 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Initializing the Interface and the Oscill oscope T o make sure the bus and all appropriate interfaces are in a known state, begin ev er y program wit h an initialization statement. W hen using the Agilent VISA COM library , you can use the resource session objec[...]

Getting Started 2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 21 Using Other Oscillosc ope Setup Commands A typical oscilloscope setup would set the vertical range and of fset voltage, the horizontal ra nge, dela y ti me, delay ref erence, trigge r mode, trigger lev el, and slope. An example of the comm ands that might b e s[...]

22 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Capturing Data with the :DIGitize Command The :DIGitize comm and captures dat a that meets t he specif ications set up by the :A CQuire subsystem. When the digitize process is com plete, the acquisition is stopped. The captured dat a can then be measured by the [...]

Getting Started 2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 23 The f ollowing pr og ram exampl e shows a typical setup: myScope.WriteString ":ACQUIRE:TYPE AVERAGE" myScope.WriteString ":ACQUIRE:COMPLETE 100" myScope.WriteString ":ACQUIRE:COUNT 8" myScope.WriteString ":DIGITIZE CHANNEL1&qu[...]

24 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Reading Query Responses from the Oscilloscope Aft er receiving a que r y (command header follo w ed by a question mark), the in strume nt in terr ogate s the r eque sted func tion and plac es the answ er in i ts output queue. The answ er remains in the output qu[...]

Getting Started 2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 25 Reading Query Results in to String V ariab les The output of th e instrument may be nu meric or charact er dat a depending on what is queried. Refer to the spe cific comm and descriptions in the online Progr ammer’s Refer ence for the f or mats and types of d[...]

26 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Reading Definite-Length Bl ock Query Response Data Definite-lengt h block query response dat a allo ws any type of device-dependent d a t a t o b e t r a n s m i t t e d ov e r t h e s y s t e m i n t e r f a c e a s a s e r i e s o f 8 - b i t b i n a r y d a t[...]

Getting Started 2 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 27 Sending Multiple Queries and Reading Results Y ou can send multiple queries to t h e instrument wit hin a single command string, but you must also read them back as a single quer y result. This can be accomplished b y reading t hem back into a sing le string va[...]

28 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide 2 Getting Started Other W ays of Sending Commands Standard Commands for Programmable Instrument ation (SCPI) can be sent via a T elnet socket or through the Bro wser W eb Control. Te l n e t S o c k e t s The f ollowing information is pro vided f or those programmers who wish to [...]

Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick S tart Guide 29 Index Numerics 82350A GPIB inte rface , 4 A ACQuire subsystem , 22 Addresses softkey , 9 Agilent Connecti on Expert , 11 Agilent In teractive IO applic ation , 13 Agilent IO Control ico n , 11 Agilent IO Librarie s Suite , 3 , 4 , 7 , 18 , 20 installing , 8 analyzing captur ed d[...]

30 Agilent 6000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer’s Quick Start Guide Index ReadString method , 19 , 24 resource session object , 20 ResourceManager object , 19 S sample programs , 14 SCPI commands , 28 set up oscilloscope , 8 SICL library , 3 status registers , 27 status reporting data structures , 14 string variables , 25 reading multiple query r[...]

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