Since Autoconf places some important feature flags only into the
configuration header, it is necessary to include it globally to
guarantee a consistent build.
All those options are currently applied only to power-supplies
but they could apply as well to electronic loads, except for the
fact that electronic loads channels are called inputs and not
outputs.
Also when you think about an SMU (or any kind of 4-quadrants
power-supply), their channels can both source and sink current,
so they can be considered as input as much as output.
Those SR_CONF_* are thus renamed so that they can be used in all
those situations.
For devices such as the HP 6632B the following invocation was failing due to
scpi_cmd(sdi, SCPI_CMD_SELECT_CHANNEL, ...) returning SR_OK_CONTINUE.
./sigrok-cli -d scpi-pps:conn=/dev/ttyUSB0:serialcomm=9600/8n1 --continuous
sr: session: sr_session_start: could not start an acquisition (not enough data to decide error status yet)
Failed to start session.
This patch only adds the needed infrastructure to control output
frequency in the same manner as output voltage or current limit. This
does require a new field in the channel_spec struct, for the sake of
symmetry.
If the number and specs of the device's channels are not static, i.e.
need to be probed, this facility is needed.
Initially this will be used for the Philips PM2800 series, where only
the model returned by *IDN? is needed. However this could also be used
to do actual discovery with vendor-specific SCPI commands.
At least the Rigol DP800 series trigger the beeper when changing
channels remotely. Which gets rather annoying when doing acquisition
on three channels as fast as you can.
Aurelien Jacobs
Daniel Elstner
Uwe Hermann
Bert Vermeulen
Soeren Apel
Alexandru Gagniuc
Martin Ling