HP Sander 16500C manual Introduction

Introduction

This chapter introduces you to the basics of remote programming and is organized in two sections. The first section, "Talking to the Logic Analysis System," concentrates on initializing the bus, program syntax and the elements of instruction syntax. The second section, "Receiving Information from the Logic Analysis System," discusses how queries are sent and how to retrieve query results from the system.

The programming instructions explained in this book conform to IEEE Std 488.2-1987, "IEEE Standard Codes, Formats, Protocols, and Common Commands." These programming instructions provide a means of remotely controlling the HP 16500C Logic Analysis System. There are three general categories of use. You can:

•Set up the system and start measurements

•Retrieve setup information and measurement results from the measurement modules

•Send measurement data to the measurement modules

The instructions listed in this manual give you access to the functions of the mainframe. This programming reference is designed to provide a concise description of each instruction for the mainframe.

Individual module instruction descriptions are in the Programmer’s Guide for each respective module.

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