GW Instek · Spectrum analyzer

GW Instek GSP-9300 / GSP-9300B / GSP-9330 spectrum analyzer

BenchMesh controls the GW Instek GSP-9300 / GSP-9300B / GSP-9330 spectrum analyzer from your PC: live readings on a spectrum analyzer panel, every setting within reach, and every value recordable on one timeline with the rest of your bench.

Models

Model	Status	Note
GSP-9300	Awaiting confirmation
GSP-9300B	Awaiting confirmation
GSP-9330	Awaiting confirmation

What you can do from BenchMesh

Spectrum analyzer panel 1 channel

Live readings

ATTEN
ATTEN AUTO
CENTER
DETECTOR
MARKER
MARKER FREQ
MARKER LEVEL
POINTS
RBW
RBW AUTO
REF LEVEL
SCALE
SPAN
START
STOP
SWEEPING
SWEEP MODE
SWEEP TIME
TG LEVEL
TG OUTPUT
TRACE
TRACE UNIT
VBW
VBW AUTO

Settings you can change

Atten auto
Attenuation
Center
Detector
Full span
Marker
Marker freq
Peak search
Rbw
Rbw auto
Ref level
Scale
Span
Start
Stop
Sweep
Sweep time
Tg level
Tg output
Trace mode
Vbw
Vbw auto

Connections

USB-serial / RS-232: 115200 baud, 8N1. Plug in the USB cable (or a USB-RS-232 adapter); BenchMesh finds the port.
USB-TMC: USB Test & Measurement Class. No vendor driver needed on Linux; on Windows BenchMesh installs Microsoft’s WinUSB driver with one click.

Notes

Not supported (yet)LAN is LXI / HiSLIP only (no raw socket); GPIB not supported.

Sources

The definition was written from these documents (definition gwinstek_gsp9300 v0.1.0).

GSP-9300 Programming Manual (201501_PM_GSP-9300_VB_E.pdf), pages printed p34 RS-232 (8N1, 300-115200 baud), p74 *IDN?, p100 CALC:MARK:PEAK, p103-106 MARKer SET/STATe/X/Y?, p125 DISP:TRAC:MODE, p128 RLEVel/PDIVision, p131 INITiate, p132 INPut:ATTenuation, p142 OUTPut, p152-153 BANDwidth, p159 DETector, p161-163 FREQuency, p189 SWEep:TIME, p192 SOURce:POWer, p202 STATus:OPERation:CONDition?, p217 TRACe:DATA?
GSP-9300B / GSP-9330 programming manuals (201701_PM_GSP-9300B_VA_E.pdf, 201707_PM_GSP-9330_VD_E.pdf), pages same command set

Have one on your bench?

Connect it, press Detect, try the controls - then tell us how it went. Every confirmation moves a model from “Awaiting” to “Community-confirmed” for everyone.

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