Cal All Independent Calibration Channels

The following program creates an Independent Calibration Channels which is a comma-separated channel list. Any selected channels will perform their own SmartCal instead of importing the calibration from the SmartCal performed on the special Cal All channel (typically Channel 200).

This VBScript (*.vbs) program can be run as a macro in the PNA. To do this, copy the following code into a text editor file such as Notepad and save it on the PNA hard drive as BalancedCOM.vbs. Learn how to setup and run the macro.

dim host: host = "localhost"

dim pna: set pna = createobject("Agilentpna835x.application",host)

wscript.echo pna.idstring

pna.preset

Set scpi = pna.ScpiStringParser

Dim mgr

Set mgr = pna.GetCalManager

Dim CalAll

Set CalAll = mgr.CalibrateAllChannels

CalAll.Reset

'Perform calibration on Channel 2 SMC:

CalAll.Channels = Array(1)

CalAll.PropertyValue("Include Power Calibration") = "true"

CalAll.PropertyValue("Independent Calibration Channels") = "1"

CalAll.PowerLevel(1) = -5

Dim guidedcal

set guidedcal = calAll.GuidedCalibration

' Specify the DUT connectors

guidedcal.ConnectorType(1) = "APC 3.5 male"

guidedcal.ConnectorType(2) = "APC 3.5 female"

guidedcal.ConnectorType(3) = "Not used"

guidedcal.ConnectorType(4) = "Not used"

guidedCal.CalKitType(1) = "85052D"

guidedCal.CalKitType(2) = "85052D"

Numsteps = guidedcal.GenerateSteps

wscript.echo "Numsteps: " + cstr(Numsteps)

For i = 1 to Numsteps

step = "Step " + CStr(i) + " of " + CStr(Numsteps)

strPrompt = guidedCal.GetStepDescription(i)

value = MsgBox(strPrompt, vbOKOnly, step)

guidedCal.AcquireStep i

guidedCal.GenerateErrorTerms