Points - Agilent Technologies X Series Manual

Compensate for RBW Group Delay
group delay of the RBW filter, rather than the filter settling time. As the RBW gets narrow, this can allow
the settling tail of the RBW to affect the beginning part of the gated measurement, and allow the
beginning of the RBW settling transient to affect the end of the gated measurement. These two effects
are symmetric because the RBW response is symmetric. Because the gate length is not automatically
compensated, some users might find this compensation to be more intuitive than compensation for RBW
settling.
Min Fast Position Query (Remote Command Only)
This command queries the position of the MIN FAST line, relative to the delay reference (REF) line. See
section "Gate View On/Off" on page
calculation is performed based on the current values of the appropriate parameters and the result is
returned. Knowing this value lets you set an optimal gate delay value for the current measurement setup.
Remote Command
Example
Initial S/W Revision

Points

Sets the number of points taken per sweep, and displayed in the traces. The current value of points is
displayed parenthetically, next to the sweep time in the lower-right corner of the display. Using more
points provides greater resolution; using fewer points compacts the data and decreases the time required
to access a trace over the remote interface.
Increasing the number of points does not increase the sweep time; however, it can slightly impact the
trace processing time and therefore the overall measurement speed. Decreasing the number of points
does not decrease the sweep time, but it may speed up the measurement, depending on the other sweep
settings (for example, in FFT sweeps). Fewer points will always speed up the I/O.
Due to minimum sweep rate limitations of the hardware, the minimum sweep time available to the user
will increase above its normal value of 1 ms as the number of sweep points increases above 15001.
Changing the number of sweep points has several effects on the analyzer. The sweep time resolution will
change. Trace data for all the traces will be cleared and, if Sweep is in Cont, a new trace taken. If any
trace is in average or hold, the averaging starts over.
When in a split screen display each window may have its own value for points.
When sweep points is changed, an informational message is displayed, "Sweep points changed, all traces
cleared."
Key Path
Remote Command
Example
is similar to Delay Until RBW Settled
549. If this query is sent while not in gate view, the MinFast
[:SENSe]:SWEep:EGATe:MINFast?
SWE:EGAT:MIN?
Prior to A.02.00
Sweep/Control
[:SENSe]:SWEep:POINts <integer>
[:SENSe]:SWEep:POINts?
SWE:POIN 5001
SWE:POIN?
Sweep/Control
, but compensates for the
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