Hi, I am trying to program a automatic channel power monitoring tool using a HP E4407B. This is an old instrument (hence freely available in the lab) VEE 9.3 doesnt have any examples (right click on device in IO monitor to load sample). This is my first time using VEE, if anyone could provide a simple code sample it would be great. Thanks.
The E4407B uses the SCPI program langage, and a simple VEE Direct IO object is often all that is needed to send/receive data to/from the unit, over the GPIB or RS232 Serial interface. See attached example that grabs the ESA screen image.
Try browsing some of the examples on this page:
[http://www.keysight.com/main/editorial.jspx?cc=GB&lc=eng&ckey=407788&nid=-33932.710346.02&id=407788&cmpid=94444]
Or in this document:
[http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/E4401-90482.pdf]
You may like to browse the programming guides for the ESA-Series:
[http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/E4401-90507.pdf]
and
[http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/E4440-90618.pdf].
You may also find the inbuilt help in the Command Expert utility to be useful.
See here for more detail on this tool:
[http://www.keysight.com/en/pd-2036130/command-expert?nid=-35491.992473.00&cc=GB&lc=eng]
I hope this helps,
Cheers, Simon C.