Hello. This is Andrew Yuan. I am an inside application engineer from Agilent Technologies.
Today we will be going through a demonstration on how to connect hardware up to your 89601B
VSA software. When you first turn on your software, this is the example screen that
you might see. It seems like you might be making live measurements, but, in all actuality,
you are running a simulation mode. You can see that by the simulate measurement notification
on the bottom left side of the screen. So let's get started. The first thing that we
want to do is to make sure that our hardware is connected in the Agilent Connection Expert,
before the VSA software has started. In this example, I have already established a connection
with an N9020A MXA analyzer. You can see that I have connected through the host name. For
more information and detailed instructions on how to get your instruments connected properly
in the Agilent Connection Expert, please check out our Connectivity in IO libraries demo
video. So now that we have already established that this connection is good, we can now go
back to the VSA software and try to establish a connection. To do that, click Utilities
here at the top, then Hardware, then Discovered Instruments. And in this list, you will see
that we have found our Agilent MXA signal analyzer successfully. Now in a situation
where, let's say, we want to add a new hardware into the Agilent Connection Expert, we can
refresh this list here and rediscover the instrument. But before we do that, we need
to make sure that the hardware is connected properly in the Agilent Connection Expert.
To do that, I will quickly show you how I will connect to an analyzer that I already
have on our network. To do that, I will right-click the LAN interface, click Add Instrument, click
Add Address. And I will just use the IP address that the instrument is already assigned to,
test the connection, and make sure it is there. Do an identification query to confirm, click
Ok. And now that I have seen that it has the screen checkmark here, I can go back to the
VSA software. I will go to that same hardware menu under Discover Instruments and click
this green icon here. What this will do is -- it will go back over the interface bus
and check to see any new hardware that it needs to rediscover. So here you will see
that this new PSA analyzer that I have just added has now appeared. So once this hardware
has been discovered, we now need to go back to the configurations tab, click this green
icon. It notes that there are several entries here under the analyzer menu. Here, the PSA
analyzer is the analyzer that I just added the second time. The exteriors analyzer is
the analyzer that I was already connected to. So let's go ahead and establish a connection
to that analyzer. What I do is click the title here under the Analyzer header. Click this
right arrow, and you will see that a new dropdown menu has appeared in this list. If there were
multiple exteriors analyzers, there would be several entries in this list I could select
from. In this situation, I am only connected to one MXA analyzer, so there is only one
option for me to select. This one looks good. So I will go ahead and change the name of
the analyzer to something that I can remember. Let's change it to MXA for now. Click Ok.
Click Ok. Now you will see that a new analyzer configuration has appeared. MXA here -- is
what we had just called it. And I can confirm that this is the same address that I have
set for it in the Agilent Connection Expert. Now we still have not yet made a connection
to the analyzer. If you notice, there is another dropdown menu here, which shows a list of
all the different configurations that we have set up. So Analyzer 1 is the default analyzer
for a simulation mode, and the MXA is the one that I just set up. So in this situation,
unless I wanted to add that second analyzer, that we connected to the second time around,
I can go through the same process by clicking this screen icon. This time, I will select
PSA Series spectrum analyzer, click the same right arrow. Again, the same dropdown menu
appears. Since there is only one PSA analyzer I am connected to, there is only one option
for me to select. I will go ahead and change the name of the analyzer to PSA. And now you
can see that there is another entry here under the analyzer configurations. So let's say
we are set here with the configurations, and we want to establish a connection to the MXA.
All I have to do is click this dropdown menu, click MXA, and now you can see that it is
acquiring the MXA. Once it is finished establishing a connection, you can confirm the connection
by going into a new menu, which we will see in a moment. And now our instrument is connected.
We can confirm this by going to Input, Data From, and note that we are actually selected
to hardware, as opposed to recording. And, also, it does not say Simulate at the bottom.
Congratulations. You are now connected to your hardware. If you have any difficulties
getting through any of this process, feel free to call in to reach the Technical Contact
Center, and we would be happy to help you.