Chapter 22
VNA Drivers

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

22.1 Copper Mountain

Device Family Driver Transport

Notes

Planar coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

S5xxx coppermt lan

Tested on S5180B

S7530 coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

SC50xx coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

C1xxx coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

C2xxx coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

C4xxx coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

M5xxx coppermt lan

Not tested, but docs say same command set

22.1.1 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.

22.2 NanoVNA

Device Family Driver Transport

Notes

NanoVNA nanovna uart

Not tested but should work

NanoVNA-D nanovna uart

Not tested but should work

NanoVNA-F nanovna uart

Not tested but should work

DeepVNA 101 nanovna uart

Development and tests made on this device (a.k.a. NanoVNA-F Deepelec)

NanoVNA-F_V2 nanovna uart

Not tested but should work

NanoVNA-H nanovna uart

Not tested but should work

NanoVNA-H4 nanovna uart

Not tested but should work

22.2.1 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):

COM6:115200:DTR

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.

22.3 Pico Technology

Device Family Driver Transport

Notes

PicoVNA 106 picovna lan

PicoVNA 108 picovna lan

22.3.1 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.