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THE CPL PROTOCOL

6.5 COMMAND REFERENCE

In this section all commands of the CPL protocol available in the oscilloscope are described in alphabetical order.

All command descriptions have the same layout:

NAME

NM

 

 

Purpose:

Explains the command, its parameters and limitations.

Command:

Shows the syntax for the programming command. The parameters are separated by one or more PROGRAM DATA SEPARATORS <pds>. Commands are terminated by a Carriage Return (CR).

Response:

Shows the format of the response coming from the oscilloscope. Responses are terminated by a Carriage Return (CR).

The oscilloscope will <acknowledge> after the receipt of each programmed command. This acknowledgment indicates the status of the oscilloscope after command execution. For more information refer to section 6.6 (ACKNOWLEDGE).

To obtain a more detailed status description, the status can be fetched with the ST command.

Example:

Example lines of programming code are used to demonstrate the function of the CPL commands. The examples as shown can be embedded in the Program Frame mentioned in section 6.2.

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