Agilent E4444A Product Overview

Easily transfer screen images and
trace data from the Agilent
Technologies 8560 series*, 8590
series, and ESA-E/L series
portable spectrum analyzers; the

E7400 series EMC analyzers; and
the CaLan 2010/3010 series
sweep/ingress analyzers over
GPIB or RS-232 interfaces to a
Windows

®

-based PC.

Capture your measurement
results and:

• Save

• Print

• Copy & paste

• Analyze

• E-mail

• Import

• Annotate

• Document

Agilent E4444A BenchLink
Spectrum Analyzer

PC Software for Portable Spectrum,
EMC, and Sweep/Ingress Analyzers

Product Overview

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Easy to use

• We’ve done all the
programming for you.

• The simple user interface
is similar to that of other
BenchLink products.

• On-line context-sensitive Help
provides detailed support in
many languages.

• Users of the Agilent 8590 series,
ESA-L1500A, and ESA-E/L
series spectrum analyzers can
restore previous instrument
setups for ease in capturing
repetitive measurements.

• A multilanguage Getting Started
guide and a full install/uninstall
utility simplify installation.

• Convenient multicolor
annotation tools add key
information to screen images.

Screen images

• Transfer a color picture of the
analyzer screen to your PC to
view, save, annotate, e-mail, or
print.

• Capture the images in bitmap or
HP-GL

1,2

formats and save them as

PCX, TIF, GIF, BMP, or HP-GL

1,2

files for importing into your
favorite applications.

• Use the Windows® clipboard to
copy and paste images directly
to your application.

1. HP-GL images can only be saved in an HP-GL file format.

2. HP-GL images are not available from the Agilent ESA-L1500A, ESA-E/L series,
E7400 series, or CaLan 2010/3010 series analyzers.

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Trace data

• Transfer the frequency/amplitude
pairs of trace data and display
them graphically on your PC.

• Use the BenchLink Pan, Zoom, and
X/Y Marker features to analyze the
traces.

• Copy trace data as frequency/
amplitude pairs in comma­or tab-separated formats to
spreadsheets or math appli­cations for further analysis and
manipulation.

Compatibility

• The BenchLink Spectrum Analyzer
supports these Agilent instruments:

8560 series*
8590 series
8590 EM-series
ESA-L1500A
ESA-E/L series
E7400 series
CaLan 2010/3010 series

• Supported PC operating systems
are Windows 3.1 or higher (with
MS-DOS® 4.0 or higher), Windows
95, Windows 98, and Windows NT®

4.0. Operation under MS-DOS or
NT 3.51 is not supported.

• Minimum system requirements
are: IBM or compatible PC with
a 486/25 MHz processor, 8 MB
RAM, 3 MB available disk space,
MS-compatible mouse, color
VGA/SVGA display, CD-ROM, or

3.5-inch high-density floppy drive.
The program is provided on CD­ROM and includes 3.5-inch floppy
disk installation/build capability
and full uninstall.

• Supported interfaces include RS­232 and IEEE-488. Suitable IEEE­488 PC interface cards include
Windows-compatible GPIB and
most National Instrument cards.

• Compatible with the entire Bench­Link family of PC software.

Free trial demo

Evaluate a demo version of the
BenchLink Spectrum Analyzer on
your PC for up to four weeks. Visit
Agilent Technologies’ Web site at

www.agilent.com/find/BenchLinksa

to download this demo program to
your PC.

Ordering information

Model Description

E4444A BenchLink Spectrum Analyzer software

Accessories

10833A GPIB cable (1 meter)
24542U RS-232 cable (3 meter, 9 pin F to 9 pin F)
24542G RS-232 cable (3 meter, 25 pin M to 9 pin F)
13242G RS-232 cable (5 meter, 25 pin M to 25 pin M)
8120-6188 RS-232 cable (3 meter, 9 pin F to 9 pin M)

Additional BenchLink PC software

34810B BenchLink Scope
34811A BenchLink Arb
34812A BenchLink Meter
34820A BenchLink Suite

*8560 Series does not include 8566/68 analyzers.

Windows, Windows NT, and MS-DOS are U.S. registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation.

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Product specifications and descriptions in this document
subject to change without notice.

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Printed in USA, January 15, 2002

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