BNC 835-3 User Manual - Manual (Page 17)

Figure 8 POWER SWEEP tab
You can select if you want frequency, output power, or both to be swept. If only one of
the two parameters is selected, the second parameter is held constant during the sweep.
The value is set to the value in line 1 of the CSV file.
You can choose the indexing of the list 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.
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
µ s]; off time [in µ s]
Note the four entries in each line must be separated by a semicolon.
Figure 10 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 3’501 lines.
The dwell time must be at least 50 µs. 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 at least
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