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eception <strong>of</strong> packets, and return the content <strong>of</strong> received packets. Since it handles<br />

the traffic between LabRAD and the GHz DAC boards, its performance has a<br />

great impact on the overall throughput achievable with the setup.<br />

Thus, this<br />

Server was written in Delphi and great care was employed in the design <strong>of</strong> the<br />

threading structure and memory management <strong>of</strong> the application. For debugging<br />

purposes, the Direct Ethernet Server provides a user interface that shows statistics<br />

on packet traffic and gives the user a way to monitor the raw byte traffic on the<br />

wire. The latter, due to the large volume <strong>of</strong> data, can severely impact performance,<br />

though, and is thus disabled by default.<br />

Like the Serial Server, one copy <strong>of</strong> this Server is run on every computer that<br />

needs to share access to its network adapters. To give each <strong>of</strong> these Server Modules<br />

a unique name, “Direct Ethernet” is prefixed with the name <strong>of</strong> the computer that<br />

it is running on.<br />

7.5.16 Anritsu, Sampling Scope, and Spectrum Analyzer<br />

Servers<br />

The Anritsu, Sampling Scope, and Spectrum Analyzer Servers implement the<br />

GPIB protocol to each control a certain type <strong>of</strong> instrument. By talking to all<br />

GPIB Servers present in the lab, they compile a list <strong>of</strong> all devices <strong>of</strong> the respective<br />

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