Chapter 3 Programming Your Universal Counter for Remote Operation

Elements of SCPI Commands

How to Program the Counter to Display Results

Configuring the Counter ’s Display

The Counter has five different display modes:

1.Non-scaled/offset results — frequency, period, time interval, etc. This display mode is used on power-up.

2.Scaled/offset results— results modified by scale and offset values

3.Limit graph — a graphical look that shows if a measurement is within limits

4.Statistics— mean, min, max or standard deviation

5.Display Enable— All segments and LEDs (except Remote and SRQ) off or on

The following command groupings show how to program the Counter to any of the above display modes.

Commands for Displaying Non-Scaled/Offset Results

The following lines will always show the raw (non-scaled/offset) measurement result.

:DISP:MENU OFF

:DISP:TEXT:FEED ‘CALC2’ :CALC2:LIM:DISP NUMBER :CALC:MATH:STATE OFF :CALC:IMM

Clear any menu items that may be on display.

Show the non-statistical result. Use the numeric display mode.

Disable math so scale and offset not used.

Cause a calculation to be made to update display.

Note that :CALC2:LIM:DISP NUMBER will only show the raw result if the command :DISP:TEXT:FEED ‘CALC2’is also issued. These commands must be issued in pairs.

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