Anritsu MS2024A Driver Experience?

[miguelc]

Has anyone out there had experience with the Anritsu MS2024A drivers found on the NI website? I'm wondering a couple things:

1. Were they worth your time, or did they cause more problems than sitting down and writting the VISA commands yourself?

2. I noticed even in the Acquire continuous example VI that they set the Anritsu for a single sweep, and use the Wait for Acquistion VI's to make sure the sweep is done. Is it a bad idea to have the analyzer on continuous sweep? Does this slow down the Fetch Trace?

Michael

[Anna_M]

Hi Michael,

While I have not worked with the Anritsu MS2024A myself, I did download the driver for LabVIEW 8.0 briefly and took a look around.  I would imagine that using this driver would speed up development for you, since there are many vi's in the palette, as well as numerous examples.  In terms of your second question, you may also want to pose this question to Anritsu to see if there is a benefit to one strategy versus another.  Good luck with everything!

[thehobbs]

NI collaborated with Anritsu to provide this driver.  As I recall, the driver implementation for continuous acquisition was required by the instrument implementation.  It is a bit of a workaround.  Actually, the example might be better called, Acquire Waveforms Continuously.   Starting with a certified driver is typically a good idea.  The driver developer has probably encountered and solved or worked around any issues with controlling the instrument.  You can always choose to copy/paste portions of the driver's VISA code and develop your own program to suite your needs.

Jason Hobbs