The User Macros Menu - Agilent Technologies HP 1660E Series User Manual

Using the Pattern Generator
Building Test Vectors and Macros

The User Macros Menu

The User Macros menu is used to create new macros and edit existing
macros. Macro 0 is the default macro and always exists. Macros let you
define a pattern sequence once, then insert the macro by name
wherever it is needed.
Macros can also have parameters passed to them. Parameters let you
create a generic macro. For each instance of a macro, you specify
unique values for the parameterized variable. Each macro can have a
maximum of 10 parameters. A maximum of 100 different macros can
be defined for use in a single stimulus program.
Differences between User Macros and the INIT and MAIN sequences
are that macros cannot use the If instruction, and a macro cannot call
another macro.
The User Maco Menu
This section only covers the two unique fields in the User Macros menu
and using parameters. For information about other fields in this menu,
refer to the discussion of these fields in the previous section on the
Sequence Menu.
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