Hello all, hoping that someone can enlighten me a bit here.
I have an old HP8510C Vector Network Analyzer that I'm trying to automate raw data dumps from. Currently, the operator has to insert a 3.5" floppy into the VNA, then name and store each file individually....over 50 times.
Ideally, what I'd like to do is bypass the 3.5" floppy, and take the Raw Data file via GPIB directly to a modern host computer. That may not be possible?
I have downloaded the current Plug and Play drivers (located here) for LabView 2014...but have some questions about comments around this forum:
1) Several posts refer to a "Getting Started.vi"..... I could not locate that file in this Driver set. Was this example file removed, and perhaps resides in an earlier version that I could still download?
2) I appear to have a good setup to configure the VNA remotely, and I found a function OutputRawData.vi that I believe contains what I need. Is there a help file for this VI that could give me enough information to configure this, and create an equivalent test output file?
3) Can I force menu inputs into the VNA (particulary set & increment filenames), and then prompt the User to save the file to the 3.5" disk instead?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks,