How To Send A Manual Command - Agilent Technologies Option H48 Multiport Test Set Z5623A User's And Service Manual

How to Send a Manual Command

This procedure assumes the following:
Step 1. Select a command from
Step 2. Click in the command window once to ensure that it is active.
Step 3. Verify that the last line of text appearing in the window is the ud0:
prompt with nothing after it.
Step 4. Type ibwrt and then press the <Enter> key.
Step 5. When the prompt enter string: appears, type all of the following in
exactly the order listed here:
For example, to connect the Reflection port of the network analyzer to
Test Port #3, type "refl_03;"<Enter>. To connect the Transmission port of
the network analyzer to Test Port #7, type "tran_07;"<Enter>. See
3-6, "User Controller Window."
Step 6. Look at the PORT CONNECTION display on the test set to verify that
the command was received.
Step 7. If the message on the PORT CONNECTION display is, "ERR: Invalid
Command", type ibclr<Enter> to clear the bus. Next, repeat Steps 3
through 5.
Use the <Up Arrow> key to recall previous commands. This will
NOTE
decrease typing time and errors.
The test set waits until it receives a semicolon before executing any
NOTE
command. Once the semicolon is received, the test set combines into a
single string all of the characters it has received since the previous
semicolon. The test set then treats the string as a single command.
Agilent Technologies Z5623A Option H48
• The instructions in the previous section
to Control the Test
• The command window (C:\Program Files\
National Instruments\NI-488.2\bin\ibic.exe) shown at the
bottom of Figure 3-7
• a double quotation mark (")
• the command selected in Step 1
• a semicolon
• another double quotation mark (")
• the <Enter> key
Using the Network Analyzer to Control the Test Set
Set") have been performed.
is visible on the analyzer.
Table 3-2 or Table 3-3.
How to Send a Manual Command
("Preparing the Analyzer
Figure
3-7