In a time long ago, in a lab far far away, I wrote some (hopefully) long-lost 'C' code for this instrument.
I remember that the programming manual had many examples (some were rather contrived), which included a discussion of the binary storage formats. My code did not store data on the local drive, but streamed ASCII to an external computer through the GPIB port. I strongly advise against using the internal disk to store data and code - it was not consistent about the two's complement format, and older versions did not use the DOS FAT. Consider the use on an external control box so that you do not have to use the embedded controller/interpreter. The best way to determine the 'effect' of control commands is to use the NI interactive utilities - then start writing code. Have you hugged your status register today ? luck, Brian From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Richard Georgerian Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 10:20 PM To: IEEE emc-pstc Subject: Advantest R3753: programming in BASIC Greetings All, We have an old Advantest R3753 network analyzer. It uses the standard GPIB interface and uses the programming language BASIC for its commands. There is no software support for this model from Advantest. I am looking for someone who has written some code who wouldn't mind sharing a snippet of code. I have the programming manual, so I can learn how to write some code. But it would be helpful if I had code that I know works to learn from. The analyzer does save data onto a floppy, but in a binary format (.bin). The analyzer does not save the data in any other format. So having a data saved as a .bin does not help us. Any help in converting a .bin file to a text file would be appreciated. Any assistance would be helpful. Many thanks. Richard ===== Richard Georgerian Compliance Engineer email: [email protected] - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
