User`s guide

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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 E5061A/E5062A.
This guide describes programming method mainly aiming at learning how to write a
program that remotely controls the E5061A/E5062A using SCPI commands, focusing on
sample usage with the HTBasic.
Controlling the E5061A/E5062A using the built-in VBA is not covered by this guide; it is
described in VBA Programmer's Guide. For using the E5061A/E5062A VBA, see VBA
Programmer's Guide.
Description in this guide assumes that the reader has learned manual operation of the
E5061A/E5062A.Thus, this guide does not describe each feature of the E5061A/E5062A
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, “Setting Up the Analyzer.”
This chapter describes how to configure measurement conditions and how to
configure the way the instrument displays measurement results on the LCD.
Chapter 4, “Performing a Calibration.”
This chapter describes how to obtain the calibration coefficients and perform error
correction and how to define the calibration kit required to obtain the calibration
coefficients.
Chapter 5, “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 6, “Analyzing Data.”
This chapter describes how to use markers and analysis command.
Chapter 7, “Reading/Writing Measurement Data.”
This chapter provides an overview of the Agilent E5061A/E5062A's internal data
processing flow and describes how to read and write measurement results (internal
data array).
Chapter 8, “Limit Test.”