I've been downloading the 8241A instrument driver (IVI-C) in order to integrate this instrument in one of our application.
The shipping examples and functions allow the user to download an arbitrary waveform to the instrument...so far so good !
Unfortunately, I could not find a function that would allow me to download a .pbp file created with Signal Studio and the .pbp file structure doesn't seem to be documented (if so, I could parse it and create the waveform to send to the instrument).
It is not practical for us to use an Active-X interface to remotely control Signal Studio (pulse builder option) since we will not be running on a Windows platform.
I'm not sure I have a good alternative to allow us integrate this HW on our application.
...Using the "good old" SCPI language and a few high level functions to parse the .pbp file would have made my life much easier
Is there an easy way to use 8241 + PSG + .pbp files from a non-Windows OS?
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Gerald
The shipping examples and functions allow the user to download an arbitrary waveform to the instrument...so far so good !
Unfortunately, I could not find a function that would allow me to download a .pbp file created with Signal Studio and the .pbp file structure doesn't seem to be documented (if so, I could parse it and create the waveform to send to the instrument).
It is not practical for us to use an Active-X interface to remotely control Signal Studio (pulse builder option) since we will not be running on a Windows platform.
I'm not sure I have a good alternative to allow us integrate this HW on our application.
...Using the "good old" SCPI language and a few high level functions to parse the .pbp file would have made my life much easier
Is there an easy way to use 8241 + PSG + .pbp files from a non-Windows OS?
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Gerald
The .pbp file is a script that instructs the Signal Studio application on how to create, calibrate and download the waveform.
This file can only be created and run within a licensed Signal Studio platform. The output of this code is the actual waveform that is downloaded
and played back via the 8241 and the PSG. The value of our Pulse Builder Signal Studio application lies in the .pbp creation instructions
and currently this is Windows based only. However you could use another waveform creation tool (it doesn’t have to be Windows based).
Once the waveform is created you can then download it into the 8241 and up convert using the PSG.
So the direct answer to your question is No there is no easy way to use 8241 + PSG + .pbp files from a non-Windows OS and in fact there is no
way to use the Pulse Builder Signal Studio application in a non Windows OS.
I hope this was helpful -