[time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

[John C. Westmoreland, P.E.]

To Answer Paul and Jim.

The code can be downloaded here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp-tcl/files/net-snmp-tcl/Alpha%200.1/

Basically an interface to control instruments over SNMP using TCL - using
Net-SNMP as the base.

We used this primarily to control VSA's.

I imagine this can still be used as a starting base - updating what MIB's
and other options you may need.

The UG7 option may be required to run this on the 89441A.

To answer Jim - when we were developing this - we decided to use SNMP
(ethernet) vs. GPIB just because we had so many of these
running and had results being posted so people could remotely access.  SNMP
was the choice.  It ran very well.

If anyone is interested and you can't download the code for some reason -
let me know and I will e-mail it to you.

The zipfile is 865 KB.  It is called: net-snmp-tcl-alpha01.zip - we had
planned to release more but then the economy went dot-com-bomb.
But, this is fundamentally what we ran all of our test automation with
regarding the VSA's.

Best Regards,
John W.
AJ6BC


On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:18 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> John would that be the command line interpreter?
> There are a lot of TCLs on sourceforge
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:01 PM, John C. Westmoreland, P.E. <
> john at westmorelandengineering.com> wrote:
>
> > Magnus,
> >
> > I used to be responsible for a couple of labs in the late 90's early
> 2000's
> > where we had several of these.
> >
> > First - do you have this option installed:
> > Add Agilent Instrument BASIC 1C2  ?
> >
> > We automated the VSA's using GPIB and TCL.  I jumped through some hoops
> to
> > make the TCL library
> > publicly available on SourceForge - and it is still there.  TCL is a
> basic
> > like language for easy instrument
> > control and worth looking at if you want this to be as easy as possible.
> >
> > I noticed there are some nifty GPIB to USB adapters available now.
> >
> > We ran 24/7 this way doing low noise analysis.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > John W.
> > AJ6BC
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Danielson <
> > magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Fellow time-nuts,
> > >
> > > This is a little off the normal time-stuff, but I wonder if people just
> > > happens to have some suitable input to give.
> > >
> > > I have a couple of HP89410A/89441A and would like to see if it would be
> > > nice to see what could be done using the instrument BASIC. How would I
> be
> > > able to enable or install it?
> > >
> > > Now, don't even bother to write comments about how you can do better
> > using
> > > software control from a PC with this and that tool, this is explicitly
> > not
> > > part of the question.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Magnus
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