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N6841A RF Sensor (I think it's the right place)

Question asked by crazie on May 2, 2011
Latest reply on Jun 28, 2011 by rw_rsl

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Hello,

The Sensor mentioned in the title is basically a receiver/analyzer. I hope I'm in the right forum (Moderators please relocate if necessary).

Does anyone have any programming documentation on these? Can anyone confirm that they use SCPI commands? Agilent's website has virtually no information on these at all.

I'm trying to connect to them from Matlab.

Thanks,

Anthony

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rw_rsl May 12, 2011 7:09 PM
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Hi Anthony,

To my knowledge, and I am just starting to work with these RF Sensors, they are not designed to interact with SCPI commands.

The N6841A RF Sensors come with an 'Agilent RF Sensor Software' CD that contains a 'Sensor Management Tool' (SMT) which allows you locate RF Sensors, make some configurations to them, and allows you to see the spectrum they are monitoring. I would start out by using the SMT to establish a connection with the sensors and start playing around with their configuration. In the Help menu there is a Users Guide which explains how to use the SMT. If you do not have the CD which contains this software, you can download it from here under the 'Drivers and Software' section:
http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/tec ... ageMode=OV

Once you have had a chance to get familiar with the SMT, perhaps you may want to look into the e3238s software or using the sensor with the VSA software.

Hope this helps.
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rw_rsl Jun 28, 2011 4:27 PM
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Hello again,

Now that I have had some time to use the sensors and since there have been no more replies in this thread, I thought I would add to my previous post.

In addition to the SMT software mentioned in my previous post, the 'Agilent RF Sensor Software CD' contains C libraries written by Agilent to configure and control the RF Sensor units. These libraries, referred to as Sensor Access Libraries (SAL), can be called from C/C++/C# applications so that users can create their own applications to collect and process data from the RF Sensors. In addition to the libraries, Agilent has included Demo applications (some with GUIs and some to be called from the command line) with source code to help programmers get started. It seems that getting the user to write their own programs that call the SAL functions is how these RF sensors were intended to be operated. There are, however, some software products available for purchase from Agilent that can interface to the RF sensors such as the E3238S Signal Survey Software.

I hope this post, and my previous one, help clarify how these sensors are intended to be used and what the possibilities are with them.

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