HP Sander 16500C manual

Part 1 Part 1 consists of chapters 1 through 8 and contains general information about programming basics, HP-IB, RS-232-C, and LAN interface requirements, documentation conventions, status reporting, and error messages. If you are already familiar with IEEE 488.2 programming and HP-IB or RS-232-C, you may want to just scan these chapters. If you are new to programming logic analyzers you should read part 1.

Chapter 1 is divided into two sections. The first section, "Talking to the Instrument," concentrates on program syntax, and the second section, "Receiving Information from the Instrument," discusses how to send queries and how to retrieve query results from the instrument.

Read either chapter 2, "Programming Over HP-IB," chapter 3, "Programming Over RS-232-C," or chapter 4, "Programming over LAN" for information concerning the physical connection between the HP 16500C/16501A Logic Analysis System and your controller.

Chapter 5, "Programming and Documentation Conventions," gives an overview of all instructions and also explains the notation conventions used in the syntax definitions and examples.

Chapter 6, "Message Communication and System Functions," provides an overview of the operation of instruments that operate in compliance with the IEEE 488.2 standard.

Chapter 7 explains status reporting and how it can be used to monitor the flow of your programs and measurement process.

Chapter 8 contains error message descriptions.

Part 2 Part 2, chapters 9 through 14, explain each command in the command set for the mainframe. These chapters are organized in subsystems with each subsystem representing a menu.

The commands explained in this part give you access to common commands, mainframe commands, system level commands, disk commands, intermodule measurement, and target control commands. This part is designed to provide a concise description of each command.

Part 3 Part 3, chapter 15, contains program examples of actual tasks that show you how to get started in programming the HP 16500C/

16501A Logic Analysis System at the mainframe level. The complexity of your programs and the tasks they accomplish are limited only by your imagination. These examples are written in HP BASIC 6.2; however, the program concepts can be used in any other popular programming language that allows communications over HP-IB, RS-232-C, or LAN.

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