Measure Power on a Keysight RF Power Meter Using the IVI-C Driver
This example shows how to initialize the driver, read a few properties of the driver and make power measurements using Keysight™ RF Power Meter and output the result in MATLAB®.
Requirements
This example requires the following:
Keysight (Agilent) IO libraries version 17.1 or newer
Keysight (Agilent) RF Power Meter IVI version 1.0.9.0 or newer
Enumerate Available IVI-C Drivers On The Computer
This enumerates the IVI drivers that have been installed on the computer.
IviInfo = instrhwinfo('ivi');
IviInfo.Modules
ans = Columns 1 through 6 'Ag33220' 'Ag3352x' 'Ag34410' 'Ag34970' 'Ag532xx' 'AgAC6800' Columns 7 through 11 'AgE36xx' 'AgInfiniiVision' 'AgMD1' 'AgRfSigGen' 'AgXSAn' Columns 12 through 13 'KtRFPowerMeter' 'rsspecan'
Create a MATLAB Instrument Driver and Connect to the Simulated Instrument
% Create the MATLAB instrument driver makemid('KtRFPowerMeter','KtRFPowerMeter.mdd') % Use icdevice with the MATLAB instrument driver name and instrument's % resource name to create a device object. In this example the instrument % is connected by GPIB at board index 0 and primary address 1. myInstrument = icdevice('KtRFPowerMeter.mdd', 'GPIB0::01::INSTR','optionstring','simulate=true'); % Connect driver instance connect(myInstrument);
Attributes and Variables Definition
% These values are defined in the driver's header file 'KtRFPowerMeter.h' IVI_ATTR_BASE = 1000000; IVI_CLASS_ATTR_BASE = IVI_ATTR_BASE + 250000; IVI_SPECIFIC_ATTR_BASE = IVI_ATTR_BASE + 150000; KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_CALIBRATOR_ENABLED = IVI_SPECIFIC_ATTR_BASE + 189; % 1150189 KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_OFFSET = IVI_CLASS_ATTR_BASE + 5; % 1250005 KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_CHANNELS_ITEM_TRIGGER_CONTINUOUS_ENABLED = IVI_SPECIFIC_ATTR_BASE + 49; KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_MEASUREMENTS_ITEM_OFFSET_ENABLED = IVI_SPECIFIC_ATTR_BASE + 79;
Get General Device Properties
Query information about the driver and instrument
DriverIdentification = get(myInstrument,'Inherentiviattributesdriveridentification'); InstrumentIdentification = get(myInstrument,'Inherentiviattributesinstrumentidentification'); Utility = get(myInstrument, 'Utility'); Revision = invoke(Utility, 'revisionquery'); Vendor = get(DriverIdentification, 'Specific_Driver_Vendor'); Description = get(DriverIdentification, 'Specific_Driver_Description'); InstrumentModel = get(InstrumentIdentification, 'Instrument_Model'); FirmwareRev = get(InstrumentIdentification, 'Instrument_Firmware_Revision'); % Print the queried driver properties fprintf('Revision: %s\n', Revision); fprintf('Vendor: %s\n', Vendor); fprintf('Description: %s\n', Description); fprintf('InstrumentModel: %s\n', InstrumentModel); fprintf('FirmwareRev: %s\n', FirmwareRev); fprintf(' \n');
Revision: 1.0.9.0 Vendor: Keysight Technologies Description: IVI Driver for KtRFPowerMeter [Compiled for 64-bit.] InstrumentModel: E4416A FirmwareRev: Sim1.0.9.0
Configure Power Meter
% Perform the default preset on the power meter InstrumentSpecificSystem = get(myInstrument, 'Instrumentspecificsystem'); invoke(InstrumentSpecificSystem, 'systempreset'); % Wait until all instrument operations complete or until MaxTimeMilliseconds has expired invoke(InstrumentSpecificSystem, 'systemwaitforoperationcomplete', 20000); % Disables continuous triggering AttributeAccessors = get(myInstrument, 'Attributeaccessors'); invoke(AttributeAccessors, 'setattributeviboolean', 'A', KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_CHANNELS_ITEM_TRIGGER_CONTINUOUS_ENABLED, 0); % Get the number of channels available on the instrument BasicOperation = get(myInstrument, 'Basicoperation'); ChannelCount = get(BasicOperation, 'Channel_Count'); % Get the model number or name reported by the physical instrument InherentIviAttributesInstrumentIdentification = get(myInstrument, 'Inherentiviattributesinstrumentidentification'); InstrumentModel = get(InherentIviAttributesInstrumentIdentification, 'Instrument_Model'); if (ChannelCount >= 2) && not(strcmpi(InstrumentModel,'N1913A')) && not(strcmpi(InstrumentModel,'N1914A')) % Disables continuous triggering invoke(AttributeAccessors, 'setattributeviboolean', 'B', KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_CHANNELS_ITEM_TRIGGER_CONTINUOUS_ENABLED, 0); end % Enables the POWER REF output invoke(AttributeAccessors, 'setattributeviboolean', 'A', KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_CALIBRATOR_ENABLED, 1);
Make Measurements
% Initiates a measurement on all enabled channels MeasurementLowLevelMeasurement = get(myInstrument, 'Measurementlowlevelmeasurement'); invoke(MeasurementLowLevelMeasurement, 'initiate'); % Wait until all instrument operations complete or MaxTimeMilliseconds has expired invoke(InstrumentSpecificSystem, 'systemwaitforoperationcomplete', 10000); for iLoop = 1:4 % Specifying an offset to be added to the measured value in units of dB invoke(AttributeAccessors, 'setattributevireal64', 'A', KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_OFFSET, -10*iLoop); % Initiates a measurement InstrumentSpecificMeasurement = get(myInstrument, 'Instrumentspecificmeasurement'); ReadResult = invoke(InstrumentSpecificMeasurement, 'measurementsitemread', '1',50000); % Disable the display offset invoke(AttributeAccessors, 'setattributeviboolean', '1', KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_MEASUREMENTS_ITEM_OFFSET_ENABLED,0); % Fetch the result of a previously initiated measurement FetchResult = invoke(InstrumentSpecificMeasurement, 'measurementsitemfetch', '1',50000); % Enable the display offset invoke(AttributeAccessors, 'setattributeviboolean', '1', KTRFPOWERMETER_ATTR_MEASUREMENTS_ITEM_OFFSET_ENABLED,1); % Perform a power measurement MeasResult = invoke(InstrumentSpecificMeasurement, 'measurementsitemmeasure', '1',50000); fprintf('Read result: %.3f, Fetch Result: %g, Measure Result: %g\n', ReadResult, FetchResult, MeasResult); end fprintf('\n');
Read result: 0.000, Fetch Result: 0, Measure Result: 0 Read result: 0.000, Fetch Result: 0, Measure Result: 0 Read result: 0.000, Fetch Result: 0, Measure Result: 0 Read result: 0.000, Fetch Result: 0, Measure Result: 0
Display Any Errors from the Driver
% If there are any errors, query the driver to retrieve and display them. ErrorNum = 1; while (ErrorNum ~= 0) [ErrorNum, ErrorMsg] = invoke(Utility, 'errorquery'); fprintf('ErrorQuery: %d, %s\n', ErrorNum, ErrorMsg); end
ErrorQuery: 0, No error.
Disconnect Device Object and Clean Up
disconnect(myInstrument);
% Remove instrument objects from memory.
delete(myInstrument);
Additional Information:
This example shows the setup and measuring of power from a RF power meter using the IVI driver. Once the measured data is retrieved from the instrument, MATLAB can be used to visualize and perform analyses on the data using the rich library of functions in the Signal Processing Toolbox™ and Communications Systems Toolbox™. Using Instrument Control Toolbox™, it is possible to automate control of instruments, and, build test systems that use MATLAB to perform analyses that may not be possible using the built-in capability of the hardware.