section-vna-drivers.tex

\chapter{VNA Drivers}
\label{sec:vna-drivers}

This chapter describes all of the available drivers for vector network analyzers.

\section{Copper Mountain}

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\textbf{Device Family} & \textbf{Driver} & \textbf{Transport} & \textbf{Notes} \\
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Planar & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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S5xxx  & coppermt & lan & Tested on S5180B \\
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S7530 & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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SC50xx & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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C1xxx & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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C2xxx & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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C4xxx & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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M5xxx & coppermt & lan & Not tested, but docs say same command set \\
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\subsection{coppermt}

This driver supports the S2VNA and S4VNA software from Copper Mountain.

As of this writing, only 2-port VNAs are supported. 4-port VNAs will probably work using only the first two ports,
but this has not been tested.

\section{NanoVNA}

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\textbf{Device Family} & \textbf{Driver} & \textbf{Transport} & \textbf{Notes} \\
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NanoVNA & nanovna & uart & Not tested but should work\\
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NanoVNA-D & nanovna & uart & Not tested but should work\\
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NanoVNA-F & nanovna & uart & Not tested but should work\\
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DeepVNA 101 & nanovna & uart & Development and tests made on this device (a.k.a. NanoVNA-F Deepelec)\\
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NanoVNA-F\_V2 & nanovna & uart & Not tested but should work\\
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NanoVNA-H & nanovna & uart & Not tested but should work\\
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NanoVNA-H4 & nanovna & uart & Not tested but should work\\
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\subsection{nanovna}

This driver supports the NanoVNA with different variants of the original design and firmware (see above).

Communication with the device uses UART transport layer with a connection string looking like this (DTR flag is required):
\begin{lstlisting}[language=sh, numbers=none]
COM6:115200:DTR
\end{lstlisting}

Paginated sweep has been implemented to achieve memory depths greater then the device's internal limit.

Pagination is also used at low RBW to prevent the connection from timing out during sweep.

NanoVNA V2 (with binary protocol) is NOT supported.

\section{Pico Technology}

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\textbf{Device Family} & \textbf{Driver} & \textbf{Transport} & \textbf{Notes} \\
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PicoVNA 106 & picovna & lan & \\
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PicoVNA 108 & picovna & lan & \\
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\end{tabularx}

\subsection{picovna}

This driver supports the PicoVNA 5 software from Pico Technology. The older PicoVNA 3 software does not provides a SCPI
interface and is not compatible with this driver.