Agilent Technologies Model A.08.xx manual Set INITiateCONTinuous off

	Status Registers
	Use Status Registers to Determine the State of Analyzer Events and Conditions
	If your program enables the controller to detect and respond to service requests, it
	should instruct the controller to perform a serial poll when the GPIB SRQ line is
	set true. Each device on the bus returns the contents of its status byte register in
	response to this poll. The device, whose RQS bit is set to 1, is the device that
	requested service.
	When you read the analyzer status byte register with a serial poll, the RQS bit is
NOTE
	reset to 0. Other bits in the register are not affected.
	Restarting a measurement with the :INITiate command can cause the
	measuring bit to pulse low. A low pulse causes an SRQ if the status register is
	configured to SRQ upon end-of-measurement. To avoid this, perform the
	following steps:
	1.	Set :INITiate:CONTinuous off.
	2.	Set/enable the status registers.
	3.	Restart the measurement (send :INITiate).
	Example of Monitoring Conditions Using the :STATus Command
	Use the following steps to monitor a specific condition:
	1.	Determine which register contains the bit that reports the condition.
	2.	Send the unique SCPI query that reads that register.
	3.	Examine the bit to see if the condition has changed.
	4.	Act upon the cause of the condition and the SRQ to re-enable the method.
	The examples below show how to use the :STATus command to perform the
	following tasks:
	•	Check the analyzer hardware and firmware status.
		Do this by querying the condition registers which continuously monitor status.
		These registers represent the current state of the analyzer. Bits in a condition
		register are updated in real time. When the condition monitored by a particular
		bit becomes true, the bit is set to 1. When the condition becomes false, the bit is
		reset to 0.
	•	Monitor a particular bit (condition), or bits.
		Once you have enabled a bit using the event enable register, the analyzer will
		monitor that particular bit. If the bit becomes true in the event register it will
		stay set until the event register is cleared. Querying the event register allows
		you to detect that this condition occurred even if the condition no longer exists.
		The event register can only be cleared by querying it or sending the *CLS
		command, which clears all event registers.
	•	Monitor a change in the condition of a particular bit, or bits.
		Once you have enabled a bit, the analyzer will monitor it for a change in its
		condition. The transition registers are preset to respond to the condition of

going from 0 to 1 (positive transitions). This can be changed so that the selected bit is detected if it goes from 1 to 0 (negative transition), or if either transition occurs. Query the event register to determine whether or not a change has been made to how the transition registers respond. The event register can only be cleared by querying it or sending the *CLS command, which clears all event registers.

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