HP 53132A Universal Counters

[Jeff C]

I'm having trouble getting the counter to track a Rhode & Swchartz Sig Gen.
The counter will initialize, be put in remote, but just hangs one the sig
gen starts to increase frequencies from 100Mhz to 2Ghz. I'm using the agilent
instrument vi off their web site. Does anyone have any other ideas or solution
about a possible fix.

Thanks. Jeff

[Rob Cole]

While working with this counter, I found that I had to send a sequence of commands to setup the channel and gating of the counter. And I had to do it each time that I took a measurement.

I have added the VI that I used to perform this measurement.

[Th stichelbout]

Have you tried to use the VI hp5313xa from NI instrument driver list ?

It is not officially supported by Agilent but it is not working well either

[Th stichelbout]

I have modified the VI hp5313xa, including close.vi, VISA interface, precision of 0.01 Hz for frequency measurement and it works now.
One of the problem in the original driver was result a conversion problem (use of decimal point in the data returned by the instrument)

In attachement is given the modified instrument driver
for the HP53132A