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Bug in Agilent 5462xa IVI driver

I'm trying to use the IVI driver for the DSO Agilent 54621A. It seems that there is a bug in this driver. When I use the read waveform function then the DSO responds with "Query UNTERMINATED" and it takes more than 15 seconds until i get the waveform array (500 points) for one channel and that is much to long. With the plug and play driver it takes less than a second. Is this a known problem and is there a solution?

BR,
Tischi
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Tischi,

Thank you for reporting the problem. This is not a known problem so we will investigate it and let you know if we find any issues in the driver.

Best Regards,

Vesna Jadric
Instrument Drivers/IVI
National Instruments
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Hi Tischi,

We have made a slight update in the driver so I am sending you the updated files. Since we do not have this instrument available in house, we haven't had a chance to test the changes. Could you please test them for us and let us know whether we have fixed the problem you were seeing or not.

Thanks!
Vesna
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Hello Vesna

Thank you for your efforts. I have tried out the new driver and now it works quite ok. The DSO answers still with a "Query unterminated" but without or only a small delay.

BR,
Simon
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Hi Vesna

I have had a look at the source code. I have found in the modification history that phase and delay measurements are added at 2002-9-03 but I can't use them because I can't find this functions in the TestStand IVI step. Our DSO firmware revision is A.02.20.

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Simon
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Hi Simon,

Could you please send me the exact sequence of calls including the parameter values you are sending to the instrument? You can probably run the NI-Spy and send me the spy output.

Thanks!
Vesna
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Hi Vesna

Here is the output.

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Simon
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Simon,

Please try to use the updated DLL (see below) and let me know if it fixes the problem.

Thanks a lot!
Vesna
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Hi Vesna

Your new driver doesn't work. I receive a timeout when I try to read the waveform. The older one was better.
I am away for the next two weeks so I can't try out new drivers at this time.
I have attached the NI-Spy logs. Maybe they can help you.

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Simon
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