Agilent Technologies 5000 Series manual Command Tree

More About Oscilloscope Commands 8

When a syntax definition specifies that a number is an integer, that means that the number should be whole. Any fractional part will be ignored, truncating the number. Numeric data parameters accept fractional values are called real numbers.

All numbers must be strings of ASCII characters. Thus, when sending the number 9, you would send a byte representing the ASCII code for the character 9 (which is 57). A three- digit number like 102 would take up three bytes (ASCII codes 49, 48, and 50). This is handled automatically when you include the entire instruction in a string.

Command Tree

The command tree shows all of the commands and the relationships of the commands to each other. The IEEE 488.2 common commands are not listed as part of the command tree because they do not affect the position of the parser within the tree. When a program message terminator (<NL>, linefeed- ASCII decimal 10) or a leading colon (:) is sent to the instrument, the parser is set to the root of the command tree.

:(root) • :ACQuire (see page 123)

•:AALias (see page 125)

•:COMPlete (see page 126)

•:COUNt (see page 127)

•:DAALias (see page 128)

•:MODE (see page 129)

•:POINts (see page 130)

•:SRATe (see page 131)

•:TYPE (see page 132)

•:AER (Arm Event Register) (see page 89)

•:AUToscale (see page 90)

•:AMODE (see page 92)

•:CHANnels (see page 93)

•:BLANk (see page 94)

•:CALibrate (see page 134)

•:DATE (see page 135)

•:LABel (see page 136)

•:STARt (see page 137)

•:STATus (see page 138)

•:SWITch (see page 139)

•:TEMPerature (see page 140)

Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Reference 535