ENA instrument traces LabVIEW

[nashm999]

Hi,

I am using the ENA series instrument driver to control my Agilent E5062A VNA, I've got the program working for one trace but I am trying to add in more, I can configure the second trace as it appears on the analyser display but I cannot find a way of specifically reading the data of the second trace.

The only read data VI's I can find are the 'read handler input data' followed by the 'read data and memory array' Vi, neither of which has a way of specifying which trace to read, only the channel, but I want all my data to be on one channel.

Michael

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@nashm999 wrote:

Hi,

I am using the ENA series instrument driver to control my Agilent E5062A VNA, I've got the program working for one trace but I am trying to add in more, I can configure the second trace as it appears on the analyser display but I cannot find a way of specifically reading the data of the second trace.

The only read data VI's I can find are the 'read handler input data' followed by the 'read data and memory array' Vi, neither of which has a way of specifying which trace to read, only the channel, but I want all my data to be on one channel.

Michael

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You actually may need to read the manual and understand what SCPI command does what you want.

Cobbling together VIs is pointless.

[ShazilM]

Hi nashm999 / Michael, 

As mentioned above, it may be worth trying to understand what you are trying to achieve and how you will go about doing this rather than combining VIs together. While this may be an easy option - it often makes code not very scalable if you want to make many changes to it to meet your exact requirement. 

Do let me know what you think about this and how you have progressed so far with this.  

Regards,

[nashm999]

Okay ill give it a shot just would have liked a faster way than trawling through the 550 page programmers guide, once I find the correct command(s) how do I go about implementing it as I have never worked with SCPI commands before.

Thanks

Michael

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

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@nashm999 wrote:

Okay ill give it a shot just would have liked a faster way than trawling through the 550 page programmers guide, once I find the correct command(s) how do I go about implementing it as I have never worked with SCPI commands before.

Thanks

Michael

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Trawling through the 550 page programmer's gude is part of your job. 

I haven't used a ENA in 2 years, and I would have to do the same thing again. 

[yxhuang]

Hello, I have the same problem as you, hope you can send me your block diagram if you solved it so far, 

Best regards,