I've been trying to load waveforms into a Tabor WW1071 signal generator, without success. I can talk to the thing over ethernet, sending SCPI commands and reading back the (few) responses. I have no problem to make it put out the standard built-in waveforms, but when I try to load my own waveforms, I get nowhere. Often I even crash the thing, requiring a power cycle before it will accept a new TCP connection.
I've tried several code snippets found in the documentation, piping the data into the AWG through telnet or netcat, but to no avail. One big problem is that the instrument returns very little information about its internal state. Erroneous commands produce no error returns. Comparing it to similar devices from reputable manufacturers, lots of commands to read out internal state or data are missing. It's mostly a write-only black box. It's a shameful piece of work, really.
Can somebody offer any hints?
Thanks, Jeroen Belleman