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The Mode name appears on the banner after the word "Agilent" followed by the Measurement Title. For
example, for the Spectrum Analyzer mode with the Swept SA measurement running:
It is possible to specify the order in which the Modes appear in the Mode menu, using the Configure
Applications utility (System, Power On, Configure Applications). It is also possible, using the same utility,
to specify a subset of the available applications to load into memory at startup time, which can significantly
decrease the startup time of the analyzer. During runtime, if an application that is not loaded into memory
is selected (by either pressing that applications Mode key or sending that applications :INST:SEL command
over SCPI), there will be a pause while the Application is loaded. During this pause a message box that
says "Loading application, please wait..." is displayed.
Each application (Mode) that runs in the X-Series signal analyzers consumes virtual memory. The various
applications consume varying amounts of virtual memory, and as more applications run, the memory
consumption increases. Once an application is run, some of its memory remains allocated even when it is
not running, and is not released until the analyzer program (xSA.exe) is shut down.
Agilent characterizes each Mode and assigns a memory usage quantity based on a conservative estimate.
There is a limited amount of virtual memory available to applications (note that this is virtual memory and is
independent of how much physical RAM is in the instrument). The instrument keeps track of how much
EMI Receiver Mode Reference
the ESU Spectrum Analyzer Mode.
:INSTrument[:SELect] RECeiver
provided for ESU compatibility. When this command is received, the analyzer aliases it to the
following:
:INST:SEL EMI
:CONF FSC
This results in the analyzer being placed in the EMI Receiver Mode, running the Frequency Scan
measurement, in order to emulate the ESU Receiver Mode.
Prior to A.02.00
A.13.00
:INST 'SA'
The query is not a quoted string. It is an enumeration as indicated in the Instrument Select table
above.
The command must be sequential: i.e. continued parsing of commands cannot proceed until the
instrument select is complete and the resultant SCPI trees are available.
:INSTrument[:SELect] 'SA'|'PNOISE'|'EDGE'|'GSM'|'BASIC'
Prior to A.02.00
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