Instrument Setup and Statu s Interface/Instrument Behaviour Settings – The SYSTem Subsystem
76 Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition
Interface/Instrument Behaviour Settings – The SYSTem
Subsystem

The SYSTem subsystem lets you control the instrument’s serial interface.

You can also control some internal data (like date, time, a nd so on).

command: :SYSTem:DATE
syntax: :SYSTem:DATE<wsp><year>,<month>,<day>
description: Sets the instrument’s internal date.
parameters: • the first value is the year (four digit s),

• the second value is the month, and

• the third value is the day.

response: none
example: syst:date 1999, 1, 12
command: :SYSTem:DATE?
syntax: :SYSTem:DATE?
description: Returns the instrument’s internal date.
parameters: none
response: The date in the format year, month, day (16-b it signed integer values)
example: syst:date? → +1999,+1,+12<EN D>
command: :SYSTem:ERRor?
syntax: :SYSTem:ERRor?
description: Returns the next error from the error queue (see “The Error Queue” on page22).
Each error has the error code and a short descriptio n of the error, separated by a comma , for
example 0, "No error".
Error codes are numbers in the range -327 68 and +32767.
Negative error numbers are defined by the SCPI standard . Positive error numbers are device
dependent.
parameters: none
response: The number of the latest error, and its meaning.
example: syst:err? → -113,"Undefined header"<END>