Overview Of Downloading And Extracting Waveform Files - Keysight Technologies X-Series Programming Manual

Creating and Downloading Waveform Files

Overview of Downloading and Extracting Waveform Files

Overview of Downloading and Extracting Waveform Files
The signal generator lets you download and extract waveform files. You can
create these files externally and download them to the signal generator. The
signal generator also accepts waveforms files created for some earlier signal
generator models. For file extractions, the signal generator encrypts the
waveform file information. The exception to encrypted file extraction is user–
created I/Q data. The signal generator lets you extract this type of file
unencrypted. After extracting a waveform file, you can download it into another
Keysight signal generator that has the same option or software license required
to play it. Waveform files consist of three items:
1. I/Q data
2. Marker data
3. File header
This order of download is required, as the I/Q data downloads results in
the overwriting of all of these three parts of the file.
The signal generator automatically creates the marker file and the file header if
the two items are not part of the download. In this situation, the signal
generator sets the file header information to unspecified (no settings saved)
and sets all markers to zero (off).
There are three ways to download waveform files: FTP, programmatically, or
using one of the available free download utilities created by Keysight
Technologies:
— N7622A Signal Studio Toolkit 2
— Keysight Waveform Download Assistant for use only with MATLAB
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