HP 8360 L Series - Program Comments

Saving and Recalling
When a typical sweep, like example program 3, is set, up, the
States, Example
complete front panel state may be saved for later use in non-volatile
Program 5
memories called registers 1 through 8. This can be done remotely as
a part of a program. Clear and reset the controller and type in the
following program:
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Source=719
ABORT 7
LOCAL 7
CLEAR Source
REMOTE Source
CLS
OUTPUT Source;"*RST;FREQ:MODE SWE;STAR 4GHZ
;STOP 5GHZ;:INIT:CONT ON"
OUTPUT Source;"*SAV 1"
CLS
PRINT "A sweeping state has been saved in REGISTER 1."
OUTPUT Source;"*RST;FREQ:CW 1.23456GHZ;:POW:LEV -1DBM"
OUTPUT Source;"*SAV 2"
PRINT "A CW state has been saved in REGISTER 2."
PRINT II..... Press Continue"
PAUSE
OUTPUT Source;"*RCL 1"
PRINT "Register 1 recalled. Verify source is sweeping."
PRINT "Press Continue."
PAUSE
OUTPUT Source;"*RCL 2"
PRINT "Register 2 recalled."
PRINT "Verify source is in CW mode."
END
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: Set up 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.
Getting Started Programming l-97