HP E1429A manual Register Programming, System Configuration

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Appendix C

Register Programming

Appendix Contents

System Configuration

The HP E1429A/B 20 MSa/s 2-Channel Digitizer is a message-based device. As such, it supports the VXI word-serial protocol used to transfer ASCII command strings and is capable of converting the SCPI commands it receives to reads and writes of its hardware registers.

Register-based programming allows direct access to the hardware registers. This increases the speed at which events in the digitizer occur since the parsing (converting to register reads and writes) of SCPI commands is eliminated.

This appendix is not a 1-to-1 correlation between each digitizer SCPI command and an equivalent register read or write. However, basic digitizer configuration is covered, together with methods of re-initiating the digitizer and retrieving data from memory through direct register access. The sections of the appendix include:

∙ Addressing the Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 ∙ Register Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 ∙ Configuring the Digitizer Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 ∙ Arming and Triggering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 ∙ Re-i itiating the Digitizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 ∙ Retrieving Data from Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 ∙ Example Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

The example programs and programming techniques shown in this appendix are based on the following system configuration:

Controller:	HP Vectra 386/25 personal computer
HP-IB Interface Card:	HP 82335 HP-IB Interface with
	Command Library

Mainframe:	HP 75000 Series C
Slot0/Resource Manager:	HP E1406 Command Module
HP E1429A/B Logical Address:	40

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