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184 Agilent N518xA, E8663B, E44x8C, and E82x7D Signal Generators Programming Guide
Creating and Downloading Waveform Files
Overview of Downloading and Extracting Waveform Files
Overview of Downloading and Extracting Waveform Files
The signal generator lets you download and extract waveform files. You can create these files either
external to the signal generator or by using one of the internal modulation formats (ESG/PSG only).
The signal generator also accepts waveforms files created for the earlier E443xB ESG signal generator
models. For file extractions, the signal generator encrypts the waveform file information. The
exception to encrypted file extraction is user-created I/Q data. The signal generator lets you extract
this type of file unencrypted. After extracting a waveform file, you can download it into another
Agilent signal generator that has the same option or software license required to play it. Waveform
files consist of three items:
1. I/Q data
2. Marker data
3. File header
NOTE This order of download is required, as the I/Q data downloads results in the overwriting of
all of these three parts of the file.
The signal generator automatically creates the marker file and the file header if the two items are not
part of the download. In this situation, the signal generator sets the file header information to
unspecified (no settings saved) and sets all markers to zero (off).
There are three ways to download waveform files: FTP, programmatically or using one of three
available free download utilities created by Agilent Technologies:
• N7622A Signal Studio Toolkit 2
http://www.agilent.com/find/signalstudio
• Agilent Waveform Download Assistant for use only with MATLAB
http://www.agilent.com/find/downloadassistant
• Intuilink for Agilent PSG/ESG Signal Generators
http://www.agilent.com/find/intuilink
NOTE Agilent Intuilink is not available for the Agilent MXG.