HP 83480A 54750A 83480-90015 54750-97014 Programmer's Guide Dec 1995

HP 83480A 54750A 83480-90015 54750-97014 Programmer's Guide Dec 1995

This is the original Hewlett-Packard Programmer's Guide for the HP 83480A Digital Communications Analyzer and HP 54750A Sampling Oscilloscope, published December 1995. Part numbers 83480-90015 and 54750-97014. Presented in HP's standard ring binder format, this guide provides the complete GPIB/HP-IB command reference needed to program and automate either instrument over an IEEE-488 interface.

Specifications & What's Included

• Title: HP 83480A and HP 54750A Programmer's Guide
• Publication number: 83480-90015 / 54750-97014
• Print date: December 1995
• Format: Printed, three-ring binder
• Language: English
• Covers: HP 83480A Digital Communications Analyzer and HP 54750A Sampling Oscilloscope
• Interface documented: GPIB / HP-IB (IEEE-488)
• Chapters include: Programming introduction, Common Commands, Root Level Commands, Acquire, Channel, Disk, Display, FFT, Function, Hardcopy, Histogram, Limit Test, Mask Slot, Measure, Timebase, Marker, Front Memory, Service, Transient, Trigger, Waveform, and Waveform Memory Commands, plus Tables and Index

Applications

The HP 83480A is a modular digital communications analyzer platform introduced in the mid-1990s, designed for characterizing high-speed optical and electrical signals in telecommunications and data communications R&D and manufacturing environments. The HP 54750A is a companion high-bandwidth sampling oscilloscope mainframe sharing the same plug-in module architecture. Both instruments communicate via GPIB (IEEE-488), and this Programmer's Guide is the definitive reference for writing automated test sequences — covering every remote command, query syntax, status reporting structure, and measurement example needed to control the instrument programmatically from a PC or controller. It is used by engineers and technicians integrating the 83480A or 54750A into automated test equipment (ATE) setups, production test stations, or lab automation scripts. Buyers searching for this guide include those maintaining or expanding legacy HP/Agilent/Keysight 83480A or 54750A systems, as the instruments continued in service well into the 2000s and their GPIB programming architecture remains consistent across that era of HP test equipment.