Keysight P5004A Keysight Streamline VNA & NI Max

[tdibble]

Hi everyone!

We are attempting to get a new P5004A Keysight Streamline USB Vector Network Analyzer integrated into our test rack. I'm able to communicate with the VNA via Keysight's IO libraries.  However, I'm unable to get the VNA to show up in NI Max.  Since it's USB, I was hoping it would be bound to a COM port but it's not.  The VNA is listed in Windows Device Manager under a special Keysight section.

Any ideas?

[santo_13]

Maybe that is the clue, maybe it is not a USB-COM port but instead a USB Raw port that can be accessed only though their Keysight IO libraries.

[tdibble]

It turns out there are some secret sauce settings.  An applications engineer with Keysight provided this document to configure the VNA for NI Max.

https://edadocs.software.keysight.com/kkbopen/how-do-i-setup-the-p937xa-series-usb-vna-for-control-i...

[santo_13]

Good to know, learnt a new thing HiSLIP