HP 11713A Attenuator/Switch Driver

class pymeasure.instruments.hp.HP11713A(adapter, name='Hewlett-Packard HP11713A', **kwargs)

Bases: Instrument

Represents the HP 11713A Switch and Attenuator Driver and provides a high-level interface for interacting with the instrument.

Usually an attenuator is hooked to either X or Y or X and Y. To ease the control of the attenuator driver you have the possibility to set an attenuator type via the attribute ‘ATTENUATOR_X’ or ‘ATTENUATOR_Y’. The hp11713a keeps different default attenuator mappings. After setting the attenuator type you are able to use the methods ‘attenuation_x’ and/or ‘attenuation_y’ to set the switch driver to the correct value for the specified attenuation. The attenuation values are rounded.

from pymeasure.instruments.hp import HP11713A
from pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a import Attenuator_110dB

sd = HP11713A("GPIB::1")

sd.ATTENUATOR_Y = Attenuator_110dB
sd.attenuation_y(10)
sd.ch_0.enabled = True

channels

Channels: ch_0: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_1: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_2: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_3: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_4: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_5: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_6: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_7: SwitchDriverChannel, ch_8: SwitchDriverChannel

attenuation_x(attenuation)

Set switches according to the attenuation in dB for X

The set attenuation will be rounded to the next available step. An attenuation mapping has to be set in before e.g.

from pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a import HP11713A, Attenuator_110dB

instr.ATTENUATOR_X = Attenuator_110dB
instr.attenuation_x(10)

attenuation_y(attenuation)

Set switches according to the attenuation in dB for Y

The set attenuation will be rounded to the next available step. An attenuation mapping has to be set in before e.g.

from pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a import HP11713A, Attenuator_110dB

instr.ATTENUATOR_Y = Attenuator_110dB
instr.attenuation_y(10)

deactivate_all(): Deactivate all switches to polarity ‘B’.

class pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a.SwitchDriverChannel(parent, id)

Bases: Channel

property enabled: Set this channel to the polarity ‘A’ for True and ‘B’ for False.

pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a.Attenuator_11dB: Mapping of logical values for use with 0 - 11 dB attenuators

pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a.Attenuator_110dB: Mapping of logical values for use with 0 - 110 dB attenuators

pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a.Attenuator_70dB_3_Section: Mapping of logical values for use with 0 - 70 dB attenuators with 3 switching sections

pymeasure.instruments.hp.hp11713a.Attenuator_70dB_4_Section: Mapping of logical values for use with 0 - 70 dB attenuators with 4 switching sections