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Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
Status Reporting
Communicate Status Register Group

The Communicate Status Register Group contains information about the Test

Set’s hardware. This status group is accessed using the STATus commands. The

Communicate Status Register Group uses 16-bit registers and includes a

Condition Register, Transition Filters, an Event Register, an Enable Register, and

a Summary Message. Refer to the “Status Reporting Structure Overview” on page

239 for a discussion of status register operation. Figure 17 shows the structure and

STATus commands for the Communicate Status Register Group.

Figure 17 Communicate Status Register Group

0
:STATus: COMMunicate: ENABle?
<integer>
:STATus: COMMunicate: EVENt ?
:STATus: COMMunicate:PTRan sition
:NTRansition
?
<integer>
?
<integer>
:STATus: COMMunicate: CONDition ?
Summary Message Bit
Condition
Register Transition
Filter Registers Event
Register Enable
Register
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Logical OR
15
ch4drw14.drw
(to bit 6 of Hardware
Status Register Group
#1 Condition Register )