:SENSe:FREQuency:SPAN

Description

This command gets or sets the frequency span of a sweep. If the frequency span is altered, the start frequency and the stop frequency are changed accordingly. If the resulting value of either the start frequency or the stop frequency would exceed the limits, a Settings conflict error (-221) is raised and the values are NOT changed. If the frequency span value itself exceeds the maximum limit, it is tried to set it to max or min value. This does not raise an error, if the center frequency is set exactly to the center value between the maximum and minimum frequency limitation, otherwise a Settings conflict error is raised, because the start or stop frequency would exceed the limits.

Syntax Parameter
:SENSe<ch>:FREQuency:SPAN <numeric>
Parameters accepted format allowed suffixes possible Errors description
<ch> { 1 | empty } none Undefined header Currently only one channel is supported. Empty means 1 is used as default.
<numeric> numeric value Hz Settings conflict The frequency span value of the sweep

Presets

default value
<numeric> 40kHz

Sample usage

Configure and start a sweep measurement with center frequency of 10kHz and a span of 5kHz (from 7.5kHz to 12.5kHz).

var visaSession = new TcpipSocket(VISA_RESOURCENAME);
visaSession.RawIO.Write(":SENS:FREQ:CENT 10kHz\n");
visaSession.RawIO.Write(":SENS:FREQ:SPAN 5kHz\n");
visaSession.RawIO.Write(":TRIG:SING\n");
// wait for the measurement to finish
visaSession.RawIO.Write("*OPC?\n");
visaSession.RawIO.ReadString();
visaSession.RawIO.Write(":SENS:FREQ:DATA?\n");
var frequencyValues = visaSession.RawIO.ReadString();
visaSession.RawIO.Write(":CALC:DATA:SDAT?\n");
var measurementValues = visaSession.RawIO.ReadString();

:SENSe:FREQuency:CENTer

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