Agilent Technologies N5980A Mode d'emploi

Agilent

3.125 Gb/s Serial BERT

N5980A

Programming Guide

2 N5980A Programming Guide

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Introduction

N5980A Programming Guide 5

Contents

Contents 5

1Introduction 6

2Programming Basics 8

3Setting Up The Environment 10

4A Typical Remote Program 13

5SCPI Command Reference 18

6Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 21

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1 Introduction

Introduction This document provides the information you need for remote programming

the N5980A Serial BERT.

Communication

Overview

To communicate with the N5980A Serial BERT from a remote computer, you

have to connect the USB port on the rear of the instrument to a USB port of

your PC.

Figure 1: N5980A Serial BERT setup diagram

Note: the N5980A Serial BERT does not have a LAN or a GPIB interface.

Controller PC

USB

Introduction

N5980A Programming Guide 7

Agilent I/O

Libraries

To communicate with the N5980A Serial BERT, you do not need the Agilent

I/O Libraries! The communication with the instrument is not done using the

VISA libraries.

The remote access can only be done by directly using Windows Sockets.

The N5980A Serial BERT is not visible with the Agilent Connection Expert,

i.e. it does not provide USB API programming through or with the Agilent IO

Libraries!

Because the N5980A Serial BERT does not use the Agilent IO Library

infrastructure you cannot use e.g. the VISA Assistant or the Interactive IO

program to send SCPI commands to the instrument.

Please refer to the Sample Code in the enclosed examples to control the

N5980A from within a remote program.

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2 Programming Basics

SCPI Compatibility The SCPI commands represent the instrument’s advanced analysis, and

pattern generation features that can be controlled from within the remote

programs.

The N5980A Serial BERT is not is fully SCPI1997 standard compliant.

The remote programming language is close to SCPI. The instrument does

not have full featured SCPI parser.

The missing standard SCPI features are:

•Status handling/registers

No commands are available to query or set the status of the

instrument.

•Support of short and long form of SCPI commands

Commands may only sent in the exact format given below.

Example: :SOUR1:PATT PRBS7

You may not use: :SOURce1:PATTern PRBS7

•There are no default suffixes

You always have to add the suffix to the command

Example: :SOUR1:PATT?

You may not omit the “1” in “SOUR1”.

•Multiple SCPI commands in one line

You always have to specify the full command.

SCPI standard allows: :SOUR1:PATT PRBS7;EADD ONCE

N5980A needs: :SOUR1:PATT PRBS7; :SOUR1:PATT:EADD ONCE

The commands must always be complete, even for the second

parameter that belongs to the same root node inside a transaction.

•Only a few of the standard SCPI commands are available,

e.g. *OPC is missing.

Please refer to the Sample Code in the enclosed examples to control the

N5980A from within a remote program.

Programming Basics

N5980A Programming Guide 9

Remote Access

Using Windows

Sockets

The N5980A Serial BERT does not use the Agilent IO Library infrastructure.

You therefore cannot send SCPI commands to the instrument using that

infrastructure (e.g. with the VISA Assistant or the Interactive IO program).

However, you can send the commands “directly”. You have to send them

directly to the IP address (and a certain port number) of the PC that is

controlling the N5980A Serial BERT.

The software controlling the N5980A Serial BERT will receive the commands

and forward them to the USB interface the Serial BERT is connected to.

In other words the N5980A Serial BERT software (running on the PC that is

controlling the instrument) acts as “gateway”: it receives the commands

over the network and forwards them to the Serial BERT via the USB

interface.

As a consequence the remote programming software needs to take the SCPI

commands and send them to the IP address (and a certain port number) of

the PC that is controlling the N5980A Serial BERT.

The remote programming software will do this using Windows Sockets.

The details will be shown in the examples below and in the Sample Code in

the enclosed examples.

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3 Setting Up The Environment

Introduction This section describes step by step the setup required to programmatically

access the N5980A Serial BERT.

Controller PC

Requirements

The N5980A Serial BERT software runs on a controller PC which is

connected to the instrument using an USB link.

The PC has to meet the following requirements:

•Pentium III with > 450 MHz

•Minimum RAM: 256 MB

•20 MB of free disk space

•Operating System:

oWindows 2000 SP4

oWindows XP SP2

•Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework

(If the .NET 2.0 Framework is not already installed, download it from

the Microsoft Download Center or alternatively execute the program

dotnetfx.exe that is included on the installation CD).

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