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SCPI-Defined Errors
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Standard SCPI errors (–1 to –999)
All positive numbers are instrument-dependent. All negative numbers are
reserved by the SCPI standard with certain standard error/event codes
described in this document. The value, zero, is also reserved to indicate that
no error or event has occurred.
Error/event numbers
The system-defined error/event numbers are ch osen on an enumerated (“1 of
N”) basis. The SCPI-defined error/event numbers and the <error / e vent
description> portions of the full queue item are listed here. The first error/
event described in each class (for exam ple, –100, –200, –300, –400) is a
“generic” error. In selecting the proper Error/event number to report , more
specific error/event codes are preferred, and the generic error/ ev en t is used
only if the others are inappropriate.
Command errors
An <error/event number> in the range [–199, –100] indicates that an
IEEE 488.2 syntax error has been detected b y the instrument’s parser. The
occurrence of any error in this class shall cause the command error bit (bit 5)
in the event status register (IEEE 488.2, section 11.5.1) to be set.
One of the following events has occurred:
•An IEEE 488.2 syntax error has been detected by the parser. That is, a control-
ler-to-device message was received which is in violation of the IEEE 488.2 stan-
dard. Possible violations include a data element which violates the device