Agilent Technologies E4356A Introduction To Scpi, Types of Scpi Commands, Types of Scpi Messages

Introduction To SCPI	46
Conventions	46
Types of SCPI Commands	46
Traversing the Command Tree	47
Active Header Path	47
The Effect of Optional Headers	47
Moving Among Subsystems	48
Including Common Commands	48
SCPI Queries	48
Value Coupling	48
Types of SCPI Messages	49
Structure of a SCPI Message	49
SCPI Data Formats	51
Numerical Data	51
Boolean Data	51
Character Data	51
SCPI Command Completion	52
Programming Examples	52
Programming Voltage and Current	53
Programming Protection Circuits	53
Changing Outputs by Trigger	53
Saving and Recalling States	53
Writing to the Display	54
Programming Status	54
Detecting Events via SRO	54
Reading Specific Registers	54
Programming the Digital I/O Port	55
System Considerations	55
Setting the GPIB Address	55
Changing the Power supply GPIB Address	55
Assigning the GPIB Address In Programs	56
DOS Drivers	57
Types of Drivers	57
Error Handling	57
Agilent BASIC Controllers	57
Sample Program Code	57
SCPI Confirmed Commands	62
NON-SCPI Commands	62

7 - LANGUAGE DICTIONARY	63
Introduction	63
Parameters	63
Related Commands	63
Order of Presentation	63
Common Commands	63
Subsystem Commands	63
Description Of Common Commands	64
*CLS	64
*ESE	65
*ESR?	65
*IDN?	66
*OPC	66
*OPC?	67
*OPT?	67
*RCL	68
*RST	69

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