Agilent Technologies InfiniiVision 5000 Series Programmer's Guide

650 Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Guide
10 Synchronizing Acquisitions
Polling Synchronization With Timeout
This example requires a timeout value so the operation can abort if an
acquisition does not occur within the timeout period:
'
' Synchronizing acquisition using polling.
' ===================================================================
Option Explicit
Public myMgr As VisaComLib.ResourceManager
Public myScope As VisaComLib.FormattedIO488
Public varQueryResult As Variant
Public strQueryResult As String
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
Sub Main()
On Error GoTo VisaComError
' Create the VISA COM I/O resource.
Set myMgr = New VisaComLib.ResourceManager
Set myScope = New VisaComLib.FormattedIO488
Set myScope.IO = myMgr.Open("TCPIP0::130.29.69.12::inst0::INSTR")
myScope.IO.Clear ' Clear the interface.
' Set up.
' -----------------------------------------------------------------
' Set up the trigger and horizontal scale.
myScope.WriteString ":TRIGger:MODE EDGE"
myScope.WriteString ":TRIGger:EDGE:LEVel 2"
myScope.WriteString ":TIMebase:SCALe 5e-8"
' Stop acquisitions and wait for the operation to complete.
myScope.WriteString ":STOP"
myScope.WriteString "*OPC?"
strQueryResult = myScope.ReadString
' Acquire.
' -----------------------------------------------------------------
' Start a single acquisition.
myScope.WriteString ":SINGle"
' Oscilloscope is armed and ready, enable DUT here.
Debug.Print "Oscilloscope is armed and ready, enable DUT."
' Look for RUN bit = stopped (acquisition complete).
Dim lngTimeout As Long ' Max millisecs to wait for single-shot.
Dim lngElapsed As Long
lngTimeout = 10000 ' 10 seconds.
lngElapsed = 0
Do While lngElapsed <= lngTimeout

Agilent Technologies InfiniiVision 5000 Series Specifications

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Brand	Agilent Technologies
Model	InfiniiVision 5000 Series
Category	Test Equipment
Language	English