N9020a Firmware

[Jomega Gibson]

WhenI use the example "Agilent MXA Series Configure and Query Marker.vi" in the "Agilent MXA Series" driver, I get a Marker Amplitude of 0 every time. I've tried adding in a One Button Dialog VI (to pause while I change the Signal Generator's output) and a second Query Marker to see if it just needed an initial measurement as reference, but I always read 0 dBm.

I got a N9020A model (firmware ver. A.03.08) in my site. I run the "Agilent MXA Series Configure and Query Marker.vi" with the following settings (see fig 1) and seems everything went on well. The marker amplitude indicates the delta value in the instrument (see fig 2).

If the above didn't work for you. Would you please go to the Block Diagram and click the "Highlight Execution" button in toolbar? Then try to run the example to see if there are any error messages appeared during exectuion.

Reference Not Found: (xBFFC0012) Cannot retrieve user data for the given resource name as there was not data associated with the resource name. Before you can read data, you need to write the user data using the Write Data action of this User Data VI."

My coworker thinks that this is referencing an option on the SpecAn that we don't have installed and thus throws the error. The "solution" was to delete Configure Sweep Coupling.vi that was calling Extended Noise User Data.vi.

I recall getting this error before and may have solved it the same way, but don't recall. (I'm documenting this now in my modified VI.) I'm not sure what happened before, but it seems to work fine now.

When I say "working fine", I mean that the VI runs. The question I had still remains. How did you get a delta measurement in relation to marker 12? Specifically, how do you tell the SpecAn to move marker 12 somewhere other than the center frequency? I've changed the VI to a center/span configuration and am (for testing the VI) setting the frequency of my SigGen to 2 GHz and match the SpecAn with a 2 GHz center frequency and a 2 MHz span. Since it's right in the middle of the span, I get both markers (1 and 12) to be the same, thus resulting in a 0dBm delta measurement.

1) Run the Agilent MXA Series Configure and Query Marker VI with the Marker Type as Delta and the Marker Search subVI (second to last) removed, as it errored out with a delta measurement. (I was doing this all along.),

Reflecting on my stupidity it makes sense that some change in signal level needs to take place before a delta measurement can happen. But that's also why the first VI won't work all on its own: it lacks a time to wait for a change. But once I set it up as a starting power, change the power, then read the delta, it works.

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