Measurement Automation: How to Save Screens of 86100C DCA-J, SDA830 and E4440A/E4445A to Local PC Through GPIB

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Measurement automation can save you a lot of pain in many cases on top of the advantages of higher productivity and greater accuracy in case of performing repeated day-to-day test and measurement tasks. Several examples using simple GPIB commands to capture screen pictures from different instruments to a local PC are given in this article with the complete workable VEE codes shown how to implement. They are easily portable with any programming languages such as Matlab and C or scripts like Perl and Python. If you are interested in how to:

• Save screen image from Agilent DCA-J 86100C to local PC as GIF files.
• Save screen image from LeCroy SDA830ZI-A to local PC as PNG files.
• Save screen image from Agilent E4440A/E4445A spectrum analyzer to local PC as GIF files.
• Dump raw spectrum data from Agilent E4440A/E4445A spectrum analyzer to local PC as text files.
• Dump raw phase noise log plot data from Agilent E4440A/E4445A spectrum analyzer to local PC as text files.

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