Fast Mode - Agilent Technologies N1911A Programming Manual

1 Power Meter Remote Operation

Fast Mode

In the highest speed setting, the limiting factor tends to be the speed of
the controller being used to retrieve results from the power meter, and to
a certain extent, the volume of remote traffic. The latter can be reduced
using the FORMat REAL command to return results in binary format. The
former is a combination of two factors:
• the hardware platform being used
• the programming environment being used
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