VNA
When clicking on the VNA icon, the following window appears.
The fields of the Hardware tab to fill are:
- Driver: select the appropriate driver
- Address: set the address of the instrument (GPIB, LAN, ...)
- Options: additional driver options (depends of selected driver)
- VISA library: set the VISA DLL which will be used to communicate with this instrument
- Command timeout: elapsed time before returning an error message if no response
- Command delay: delay before sending a command
- Test connection: send a command to the GPIB bus to test the instrument connection
- Input port: select the input port channel
- Output port: select the output port channel
Note: The VNA could be controlled using GPIB interface (talker/listener port) or via LAN interface.
In LAN interface you can use SOCKET protocol: TCPIP0::IP address:: 5025::SOCKET , or SICL protocol : TCPIP0::IP address::inst0::INSTR.
We recommend to use SICL protocol for all your instruments.
In the "Setup" tab, fields to fill are:
- IF bandwidth set the IF bandwidth
- Averaging set the averaging