HP 437B EMULATION COMMANDS

GPIB OPERATION

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This section provides an alphabetical listing of the commands (mnemon-

COMMANDS

ics) used to program the Model ML2430A Series Power Meter when in HP

 

 

437B Emulation mode. The emulation mode can be set through the front

 

 

panel SYSTEMRear PanelGPIBMODE menu (see Chapter 4, Opera-

 

 

tion) or through the GPIB command EMUL (page 6-105).

 

 

HP Emulation commands must not have a space between the command

 

 

header and the parameter, or commas between the parameters.

 

 

The format for HP Emulation commands is:

 

 

<command header><parameter 1><parameter n>...

 

 

The end of the command text must be terminated with a line feed charac-

 

 

ter (0Ah, decimal 10) or a GPIB End of Transmission State (EOI), or both.

*CLS

Clear GPIB status bytes

 

Syntax:

*CLS

 

Remarks: This command performs a status structure clear command. The event

 

 

status register and the status register are cleared except for the MAV bit.

*ESE

Set the Event Status register enable mask

 

Syntax:

*ESE<val>

 

val:

8-bit mask

 

Remarks: Event registers for the HP 437B (see Figure 6-8):

 

 

Bit 7: Power ON

 

 

Bit 6: N/A

 

 

Bit 5: Command error

 

 

Bit 4: Execution error

Bit 3: Device Dependent error

Bit 2: N/A

Bit 1: N/A

Bit 0: N/A

See the HP 437B manual for details about the HP status registers.

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