Chapter 2 Command Summary

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Table 2-2. HP 53131A/132A SCPI Command Summary

Keyword/Syntax

Parameter Form

Std/

Comments

 

 

New

 

 

 

 

 

:ABORt

 

Std

Event; no query. Aborts measurement in progress.

 

 

 

 

:CALCulate[1]

 

Std

Subsystem. Performs post-acquisition math processing

 

 

 

(scale and offset) and data transfer on the data

 

 

 

acquired by a SENSe function.

:DATA?

 

Std

Query only. Returns scaled/offset measurement result.

:FEED

“[:]SENSe[1]”

Std

Sets the data flow to be fed into the CALCulate block.

:IMMediate

 

Std

Event or query; causes the Counter to recalculate

 

 

 

existing data without re-acquiring.

:AUTO

<Boolean>

Std

Enables/disables automatic post-processing.

:MATH

 

Std

Subtree.

[:EXPRession]

 

Std

Subtree.

:CATalog?

 

New

Returns the name of the defined equation,

 

 

 

SCALE_OFFSET.

[:DEFine]?

 

New

Returns the expression (equation) used for

 

 

 

math (scale/offset) processing.

:NAME :SELect

SCALE_OFFSET

New

Sets the name of selected math expression (equation).

:STATe

<Boolean>

Std

Enables/disables math (scale/offset) processing.

 

 

 

Note that this setting must be enabled for any of the

 

 

 

other :CALC[1] settings to be used.

 

 

 

 

:CALCulate2

 

Std

Subsystem. Performs post-acquisition LIMit testing and

 

 

 

data transfer.

:FEED

“[:]CALCulate[1] ”

Std

Sets the data flow to be fed into the CALCulate2 block.

 

 

Std

Event; no query. Causes the Counter to recalculate

:IMMediate

 

 

existing data without re-acquiring.

:AUTO

<Boolean>

Std

Enables/disables automatic post-processing.

:LIMit

 

Std

Subtree. Collects together the commands associated

 

 

 

with controlling and getting reports from a single LIMit

 

 

 

test.

:CLEar

 

Std

Subtree.

:AUTO

<Boolean>

Std

Enables the automatic clearing of limit test results.

[:IMMediate]

 

Std

Event; no query. Clears the limit test results.

:DISPlay

GRAPh NUMBer

New

Sets whether the measurement display is numeric or

 

 

 

symbolic (on a graph).

:FAIL?

 

Std

Query only. Returns a 0 or 1 to indicate if the last

 

 

 

tested measurement passed or failed the limit test.

 

 

 

0 = pass; 1 = fail.

 

 

 

 

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