Accessing Error Terms - Agilent Technologies E8362A Service Manual

Error Terms

Accessing Error Terms

Accessing Error Terms
Error terms can be accessed either manually or programmatically:
Manually
• "Front Panel Access to Error Terms" on page A-6
Programmatically
• "GPIB Access to Error Terms" on page A-7
• "COM/DCOM Access to Error Terms" on page A-7
Manual Access to Error Terms
Front Panel Access to Error Terms
Ensure the calibration correction is active by making sure that Correction
NOTE
on/OFF has a check-mark in the Calibration menu.
To access the error terms from the front panel, perform the following steps:
1. In the System menu, point to Service, Utilities, and then click Cal Set Viewer.
The Cal Set Viewer toolbar appears directly above the trace window.
2. In the Cal Set list, select the desired cal set.
3. Click the Standards/ETerms button to toggle between viewing the raw measurement
data from the standard or the corrected error term data. Note that the title of the center
box in the toolbar will toggle between Standard and Error Term.
4. In the Standard or Error Term list, select the standard or error term to view. Click the
View check box.
5. Compare the displayed measurement trace to the equivalent data trace plots that start
in "Error Term Data" on page
performance specifications listed in
6. Print numerical data or print a plot of the measurement results.
A-6
A-8, to previously measured data, or to the uncorrected
Table A-1 on page
PNA Series Microwave Network Analyzers
E8362A, E8363A, E8364A
A-9.
Service Guide E8364-90001