HP 132A, 53131A manual Status Reporting Status Byte Register, BIT Weigh Symbol Description

Chapter 3 Programming Your Universal Counter for Remote Operation

Status Reporting

Table 3-4. Status Byte Register

BIT	WEIGH	SYMBOL	DESCRIPTION
	T
0			Not used
1			Not used
2			Not used
			Questionable Data/Signal Status Register
3	8	QSB	Summary Bit
4	16	MAV	Message Available Summary Bit
5	32	ESB	Standard Event Status Register Summary Bit
6	64	RQS/MSS	Request Service/Master Status Summary Bit
7	128	OSB	Operation Status Register Summary Bit

A detailed description of each bit in the Status Byte Register follows:

∙Bits 0–2are not used.

∙Bit 3 (QSB) summarizes the Questionable Data/Signal Status Event Register.

This bit indicates whether or not one or more of the enabled Questionable Data/Signal events have occurred since the last reading or clearing of the Questionable Data/Signal Status Event Register.

This bit is set TRUE (one) when an enabled event in the Questionable Data/Signal Status Event Register is set TRUE. Conversely, this bit is set FALSE (zero) when no enabled events are set TRUE.

∙Bit 4 (MAV) summarizes the Output Queue.

This bit indicates whether or not the Output Queue is empty.

This bit is set TRUE (one) when the Counter is ready to accept a request by the external computer to output data bytes; that is, the Output Queue is not empty. This bit is set FALSE (zero) when the Output Queue is empty.

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