BNC 835 User Manual - Manual (Page 21)

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Figure 3-f POWER SWEEP Tab
Select parameter to sweep: frequency, power or both. If only one parameter is selected to sweep, the
second parameter is set to the first value (line 1 of the CSV file) for the duration of the sweep.
Choose the direction of the sweep: to go up, down or be random. If you select random indexing, the
index is randomly chosen for N times where N is the number of list points.
3.6.3.1 Sweep File Format
The input file must be a 4 column CSV file with the following syntax on each line:
frequency [in Hz] ; power [in dBm] ; dwell time [in
µs]
; off time [in
µs]
Note the four entries in each line must be separated by a semicolon.
Figure 3-h shows a valid list file with four points displayed in Microsoft Excel. Each line describes
one list point. The first line must contain all for entries, in any other line entries may be omitted. Lists
may contain up to 10’000 lines.
The off time may be set to zero if the output is not to be disabled during transients. The sum of dwell
time and off time must comply with the minimum and maximum values specified in the data sheet of