Agilent Technologies Agilent 86120C manual Programming, Where to begin…, Types of commands

Programming

Programming

Programming

This chapter explains how to program the Agilent 86120C. The pro- gramming syntax conforms to the IEEE 488.2 Standard Digital Inter- face for Programmable Instrumentation and to the Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI).

Where to begin…

The programming examples for individual commands in this manual are written in HP1 BASIC 6.0 for an HP 9000 Series 200/300 Control- ler.

For more detailed information regarding the GPIB, the IEEE 488.2 standard, or the SCPI standard, refer to the following books:

Hewlett- Packard Company. Tutorial Description of Hewlett- Packard Interface Bus, 1987.

Hewlett- Packard Company. SCPI—Standard Commands for Program- mable Instruments, 1995.

International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE Standard 488.1- 1987, IEEE Standard Digital Interface for Programma- ble Instrumentation. New York, NY, 1987.

International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE Standard 488.2- 1987, IEEE Standard Codes, Formats, Protocols and Common commands For Use with ANSI/IEEE Std 488.1- 1987. New York, NY, 1987.

Types of commands

The Agilent 86120C responds to three types of commands:

•Common commands

•Measurement instructions

•Subsystem commands

All of these commands are documented in Chapter 4, “Programming Commands”.

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