VNA control

scikit-rf has a few virtual instrument classes, located in the skrf.vi module. This page demonstrates the basic control of a PNA

from skrf.vi import vna

p =vna.PNA("TCPIP0::192.168.0.2::INSTR")
p.idn

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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [1], in <cell line: 3>()
      1 from skrf.vi import vna
----> 3 p =vna.PNA("TCPIP0::192.168.0.2::INSTR")
      4 p.idn

File ~/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scikit-rf/envs/v0.23.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/skrf/vi/vna/keysight_pna.py:36, in PNA.__init__(self, address, **kwargs)
     23 def __init__(self, address=DEFAULT_VISA_ADDRESS, **kwargs):
     24     """
     25     initialization of PNA Class
     26
   (...)
     34     :param kwargs:
     35     """
---> 36     super(PNA, self).__init__(address, **kwargs)
     37     self.resource.timeout = kwargs.get("timeout", 2000)
     38     self.scpi = keysight_pna_scpi.SCPI(self.resource)

File ~/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scikit-rf/envs/v0.23.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/skrf/vi/vna/abcvna.py:89, in VNA.__init__(self, address, **kwargs)
     87 rm = kwargs.get("resource_manager", None)
     88 if not rm:
---> 89     rm = pyvisa.ResourceManager(visa_library=kwargs.get("visa_library", ""))
     91 interface = str(kwargs.get("interface", None)).upper()  # GPIB, SOCKET
     92 if interface == "GPIB":

File ~/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scikit-rf/envs/v0.23.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyvisa/highlevel.py:2992, in ResourceManager.__new__(cls, visa_library)
   2982 """Create a new resource manager tied to the specified VISA library.
   2983
   2984 Parameters
   (...)
   2989
   2990 """
   2991 if not isinstance(visa_library, VisaLibraryBase):
-> 2992     visa_library = open_visa_library(visa_library)
   2994 if visa_library.resource_manager is not None:
   2995     obj = visa_library.resource_manager

File ~/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scikit-rf/envs/v0.23.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyvisa/highlevel.py:2899, in open_visa_library(specification)
   2897         wrapper = "ivi"
   2898     else:
-> 2899         wrapper = _get_default_wrapper()
   2901 cls = get_wrapper_class(wrapper)
   2903 try:

File ~/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/scikit-rf/envs/v0.23.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyvisa/highlevel.py:2858, in _get_default_wrapper()
   2856 except ValueError:
   2857     logger.debug("Did not find pyvisa-py package")
-> 2858 raise ValueError(
   2859     "Could not locate a VISA implementation. Install either the IVI binary or pyvisa-py."
   2860 )

ValueError: Could not locate a VISA implementation. Install either the IVI binary or pyvisa-py.

ntwks =  p.get_network_all_meas()

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NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [2], in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 ntwks =  p.get_network_all_meas()

NameError: name 'p' is not defined

[k.plot_s_db(label = k.name) for k in ntwks]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [3], in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 [k.plot_s_db(label = k.name) for k in ntwks]

NameError: name 'ntwks' is not defined

Interactive

from IPython.html.widgets import interact, interactive, fixed
from IPython.html import widgets
from IPython.display import clear_output, display, HTML

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ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [4], in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 from IPython.html.widgets import interact, interactive, fixed
      2 from IPython.html import widgets
      3 from IPython.display import clear_output, display, HTML

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'IPython.html'

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('nbagg')

freq= p.frequency
f_start = freq.start/1.e9
f_stop = freq.stop/1.e9
f_npts = 101
f_range =(f_start, f_stop,1)
f_range

def dummy(f_start=f_start,f_stop=f_stop):
    p.frequency = rf.Frequency(f_start, f_stop,f_npts,'ghz')
    p.get_twoport().plot_s_db()


interact(dummy,f_start=f_range,f_stop=f_range)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [5], in <cell line: 4>()
      1 import matplotlib
      2 matplotlib.use('nbagg')
----> 4 freq= p.frequency
      5 f_start = freq.start/1.e9
      6 f_stop = freq.stop/1.e9

NameError: name 'p' is not defined