HP 132A, 53131A manual How to Program the Counter to Display Results

Contents

Event Status Register 3-39

Using the Questionable Data/Signal Status Register to Alert the Computer When Automatic Interpolator Calibration is Disabled— Example 3 3-39

Questionable Data Status Register	3-40
Using the Operation Status Register to Alert the Computer When
Measuring has Completed— Example 4	3-40
Operation Status Register 3-40
How to Program the Counter to Display Results 3-43
Configuring the Counter’s Display 3-43
Commands for Displaying Non-Scaled/Offset Results 3-43
Commands for Displaying Scaled/Offset Results			3-44
Commands for Displaying the Limit Graph		3-44
Commands for Displaying Statistics Results		3-44
Commands for Enabling and Disabling the Display			3-45

How to Program the Counter to Synchronize Measurements 3-46

Synchronizing Measurement Completion				3-46
Resetting the Counter and Clearing the HP-IB Interface 3-46
Using the *WAI Command		3-46
Using the *OPC? Command		3-47
Using the *OPC Command to Assert SRQ				3-48
How to Program the Counter for Math/Limit
Operations 3-49
Updating Math and Limit Results Over HP-IB					3-49
Using the Scale and Offset Over HP-IB			3-50
How to Program the Counter to Define Macros					3-52
Writing SCPI Programs	3-55
Programming Examples	3-58
Using HP BASIC 3-58
To Send a Double-Quoted String			3-58
To Send a Single-Quoted String			3-58
Using QuickBASIC	3-59
Using Turbo C 3-59
List of the Programming Examples 3-59
Easiest Way to Make a Measurement (HP BASIC)						3-60
To Make a Frequency Measurement (HP BASIC)						3-62

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