134 Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Reference
3Commands by Subsystem

:CALibrate Commands

Utility commands for viewing calibration status and for starting the user
calibration procedure. See "Introduction to :CALibrate Commands" on
page 134.
Introduction to
:CALibrate
Commands
The CALibrate subsystem provides utility commands for:
Determining the state of the calibration factor protection switch
(CAL PROTECT).
Saving and querying the calibration label string.
Reporting the calibration time and date.
Reporting changes in the temperature since the last calibration.
Starting the user calibration procedure.
Table 43 :CALibrate Commands Summary
Command Query Options and Query Returns
n/a :CALibrate:DATE? (see
page 135)
<return value> ::=
<day>,<month>,<year>; all in NR1
format
:CALibrate:LABel
<string> (see
page 136)
:CALibrate:LABel?
(see page 136)
<string> ::= quoted ASCII string
up to 32 characters
:CALibrate:STARt (see
page 137)
n/a n/a
n/a :CALibrate:STATus?
(see page 138)
<return value> ::=
ALL,<status_code>,<status_string
>
<status_code> ::= an integer
status code
<status_string> ::= an ASCII
status string
n/a :CALibrate:SWITch?
(see page 139)
{PROTected | UNPRotected}
n/a :CALibrate:TEMPeratur
e? (see page 140)
<return value> ::= degrees C
delta since last cal in NR3
format
n/a :CALibrate:TIME? (see
page 141)
<return value> ::=
<hours>,<minutes>,<seconds>; all
in NR1 format