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While playing with the SM200C sweep parameter values, I am trying to learn how to make sure that I can keep a user from doing something stupid.
I was randomly jamming in values and trying to make things break and was able to consistently do it with the following parameters:
start freq: 2.3GHz
stop freq: 2.7GHz
rbw/vbw: 200kHz
period 100msWhen I attempted to kick things off, I get an error of -13 (smAllocationErr). I guess I am confused as why that would be. I can go from 900kHz – 6GHz with 100kHz rbw/vbw with no issues.
So why is the above setup an “allocation” problem? In my mind I assumed that that meant the SH couldn’t gather enough resources, but that setup should be orders of magnitude easier. I can only imagine that I am misinterpreting something, but the API documents don’t go into a lot of detail for what the error means or for limits that I might be hitting with my params.
If I change the rbw to 100kHz, it works fine (which should take twice as much resources, hence why I am guessing I don’t understand the error).
The allocation error indicates we failed to allocate memory at some point during the configuration. Usually the result of malloc failing. You can see this more often when using the 32-bit version of the API since memory allocation limit is lower.
Is it possible you were passing 200Hz instead of 200kHz as the RBW, or something similar?
Are you using the 32-bit API? If yes, is it possible your own allocated memory was high enough that our API couldn’t stay within the 32-bit limitations?
That being said, its certainly possible this is a bug and a specific combination of settings produces this error code. If you can provide a simple code example that reproduces the problem including information about your OS and what API version you are using, I can try to reproduce it. I was unable to reproduce the issue just based on the information you provided.
Andrew
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