Anritsu ML2430A operation manual Data I/O Formats, Gpib Operation, Suffix Multipliers Suffix Units

DATA I/O FORMATS GPIB OPERATION

HP and ML4803 emulation commands on the other hand, do not have to 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 either a line feed character (0Ah, decimal 10) or a GPIB End of Transmission State (EOI), or both.

Data input and output formats and templates referred to throughout this chapter are delimited with the less-than and greater-than characters (< >). Optional pa- rameters and suffix characters are delimited with brackets ([ ]). These characters are not part of the data and are only used in this text to distinguish the data ele- ments they represent.

All the commands which allow a level to be set as a value argument are floating point values which can use the E-0x convention or a suffix multiplier. The GPIB standard [units] convention (i.e., MS for milliseconds, etc.) IEEE codes and for- mats have been implemented for the suffix units and multipliers. The suffix unit is always allowed but is not required and is shown in brackets where appropriate.

Table 6-1lists the numeric data suffix mnemonics for the ML2430A Series Power Meter. These mnemonics are used when entering numeric data with GPIB com- mands (use of these codes is optional).

Commands which are not floating point, but integer, are:

Suffix Multipliers		Suffix Units
Definition	Mnemonic	Definition	Mnemonic
1E18	EX	Decibels	DB
1E15	PE	dB ref to 1 mW	DBM
1E12	T	dB ref to 1 ￿V	DBUV
1E9	G	Mega Hertz	MHZ
1E6	MA	Percent	PCT
1E3	K	Seconds	SEC
1E-3	M	Seconds	S
1E-6	U	Volts	V
1E-9	N	Watts	W
1E-12	P	Hertz	HZ
1E-15	F
1E-18	A

Table 6-1.Numeric Data Suffix Mnemonics

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