Timing Behavior

GPIB Command Compatibility List

Timing Behavior

Table 15 details the ways in which timing behavior is different.

Table 15 Timing Behavior Changes

Change

Affects

 

 

Command execution may be different.

Both

In all mainframes and modules firmware revisions before 3.x GPIB will

Both

block during command execution, except when executing functions,

 

such as logging and sweep, that don’t tolerate blocking. This is

 

identical to the behavior of the 8167/8. A side effect of this is that

 

*OPC? always returns 1.

 

In later firmware revisions GPIB only blocks if a command can't be

 

processed because of a pending command. While a command is

 

pending *OPC? returns 0 now. This is the behaviour of the 8153.

 

When continuous triggering and averaging times are greater than 1

8153

second, the read-out values reset after the averaging time is over; there

 

is no sliding behavior.

 

 

 

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