Agilent Technologies E5052A, Programmer'S Manual

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Making Effective Use of This Manual
Contents of This Manual
Contents of This Manual
This is a programming guide with Agilent E5052A.
This guide describes programming method mainly aiming at learning how to write a
program that remotely controls the E5052A using SCPI commands, focusing on sample
usage with the HTBasic.
Controlling the E5052A using the built-in VBA is not covered by this guide; it is described
in
VBA Programmer's Guide
.For using the E5052A VBA, see
VBA Programmer's
Guide
.
Description in this guide assumes that the reader has learned manual operation of the
E5052A.Thus, this guide does not describe each feature of the E5052A in detail.For
detailed information on each feature, see
User's Guide
.
The chapter-by-chapter contents of this manual are as follows.
Chapter 1, “Making Effective Use of This Manual.”
This chapter describes the contents of this guide.Using this chapter with the table of
contents helps you to retrieve description of a subject you wish to understand as well
as to obtain an overview of this guide.Also see the latter part of this chapter for brief
description of usage of this guide, focusing on searching commands.
Chapter 2, “Overview of Remote Control.”
This chapter provides an overview of the remote control system and the SCPI
commands.
Chapter 3, “Making a Measurement.”
This chapter describes how to trigger the instrument to start a new measurement cycle
and how to detect the end of a measurement cycle.
Chapter 4, “Reading/Writing Measurement Data.”
This chapter provides an overview of the Agilent E5052A's internal data transfer
format and explains how to read and write measurement results (internal data array
and marker position).
Chapter 5, “Saving and Recalling (File Management).”
This chapter explains how to save and recall instrument status and measurement
results onto/from the files. The chapter also discusses file management in general.
Chapter 6, “Working with Automatic Test Systems.”
This chapter describes useful features that are available when the Agilent E5052A is
integrated with an automatic test system.
Chapter 7, “SCPI Command Reference.”
This chapter describes the SCPI command reference for the Agilent E5052A. It
describes the commands using their abbreviated format in alphabetical order. If you
want to look up commands using their fully qualified format, refer to the index for the
desired SCPI command. If you want to look up commands by their function, refer to
SCPI command list by function.