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Measurement - Receivers gather complex trace data which is ratioed if required by the parameter, such as S11 or A/B. Otherwise it is raw receiver data, such as A or B.  See Measurement Parameters.

Averaging - If turned ON, data is averaged with specified number of measurement traces. See Averaging.

Data Access Point 0 - Get or Put RAW MEASUREMENT data using:

  SCPI - Write data using Calc:Data SDATA - Read data from Data Access Point 1

  COM - getData and putDataComplex - naRawData (0)

Acquired Cal Data -  Calibration standards are measured. When the calibration is complete, complex data is stored in a Cal Set.

Data Access Point 6   - Get or Put RAW CAL ACQUISITION data using:

  SCPI - None

  COM - getStandardComplex and  putStandardComplex

Calculate Error Terms - Error terms are calculated from Acquisition data using formulas which are appropriate for the selected calibration method. Complex error terms are stored in a Cal Set. See Systematic Errors.

Data Access Point 5   - Get or Put ERROR TERM data using:

  SCPI - Calc:Data Error Terms

  COM - Error Term commands

Note: Normalization, formerly access location 5, no longer exists and was used ONLY by Receiver Power Cal. That cal type now uses Acquire Cal Data and Calculate Error Terms like all other Cals.

Apply Error Terms - If error correction is ON, error terms are applied to the raw measurement data. Otherwise, this data is identical to Raw Measurement Data. In addition, the Fixture Simulator functions occur at the same time as the Apply Error Terms block.

Data Access Point 1 - Get or Put CORRECTED data using:

  SCPI - Read data using Calc:Data SDATA - Write data to Data Access Point 0

  COM - getData and putDataComplex - naCorrectedData (1)

See Formatting Note

Equation Editor - Allows custom equations to perform advanced math operations between data traces. See Equation Editor

See Equation Editor Notes:

  SCPI: Calc:Data

  COM: Get Data Method or Get DataByString Method.

Normalization - No longer available

Data Access Point 5 - - No longer available

Trace Math - When turned ON, memory data is combined with measurement data using the selected math function. Available functions are: Data+Mem, Data-Mem, Data*Mem, and Data/Mem. See Math Operations.

Memory  - Data that is stored as a result of a Data-To-Memory operation. Each measurement can have one memory trace. The memory data parallels the measurement data through the remaining processing blocks. For example, turning smoothing ON will smooth both the measurement and memory traces.

Data Access Point 3 - Get or Put MEMORY data using:

  SCPI - Calc:Data SMEM

  COM - getData and putDataComplex - naRawMemory (3)

See Formatting Note

Gating - When turned ON, Filter Gating is applied to the measurement data. Gating "virtually" removes undesired responses from selected regions of the trace. See Gating.

Phase Correction - When turned ON, applies electrical delay, phase offset, and port extensions. These are all separate features that are controlled individually.

Magnitude Offset - When entered, offset values are applied to the magnitude (real) portion of the data. See Magnitude Offset.

Time Domain - When turned ON, transforms the data from the frequency domain to the time domain. See Time Domain

Formatter - Complex data is converted into scalar data formats for screen display and remote access. For smoothed data, request the data in the same format as the displayed data. See Data Format

Smoother - When turned ON, removes discontinuities in the measurement and memory trace. See Smoothing.

Display - Displays the processed measurement, memory data, or both, in the format of your choice.

Data Access Point 2 - Get or Put MEAS RESULT data using:

  SCPI - Calc:Data FDATA

  COM - getData and putDataComplex - naMeasResult (2)

Data Access Point 4 - Get or Put MEMORY RESULT data using:

  SCPI - Calc:Data FMEM

  COM - getData and putDataComplex - naMemoryResult (4)

See Formatting Note