Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product E6432A Agilent Technologies
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Agilent E6432A VXI Microwave Synthesizer Product Note High performance microwave capability in VXI ● 10 MHz to 20 GHz ● –90 dBm to +20 dBm ● < 400 µ s frequency swit ching time ● 1 Hz fr.
2 Introduction T oday’s VXI instruments communicat e with application pr ograms through plug&play drivers. In some cases, these driv ers are just one way to communicate. F or the E6432A micro wa ve synthesizer , its plug&play driver is the only means of communi- cation wit h the host controller or its application programs.
3 National Instr uments has tw o ver- sions of the MXI inter face t hat are usable in a host controller . The older VXI-MXI-1 slot 0 controller and its host card (the A T-MXI interface) do not operat e correctly with E6432A, due t o the A T-MXI int erface’s inabili- ty t o access more than 64k of A24 address space.
4 Features of the plug&play Driver Driver functions are divided into these major categories: ● Initializing t he instr ument ● Setting and enabling frequency and power ● Selecting and enabli.
5 T o make the most of t his list mode, comprehensiv e triggering is available for executing the list entries in t he most useful way for the t est program. Input triggering can be fr om the front panel SMB connector , over the VXI TTL backplane triggers, VXI0-VXI7 , or manually via t he SFP .
6 Figure 1 A typical VEE program for controlling a signal source in a test program. Figure 2 A LabView program that initializes the Agilent E6432A, sets frequency and amplitude, enables or disables pulse modulation, and closes the session.
7 Figure A Visual Basic programming example calling the initialization routine. Note that all functions return VI_SUCCESS, which is zero for success and non-zero for error conditions.
W arranty Information All A gilent products described in this document are warranted against defects in material and w orkmanship for a period of one year from date of shipment.
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