Triggering - The TRIGger Subsystem Measurement Operations & Settings
Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition 171
Triggering - The TRIGger 
Subsystem
The TRIGger Subsystem allows you to configure how the instrument 
reacts to incoming or outgoing triggers.
Table 8 Triggering and Power Measurements
Hardware 
Triggering
Trigger Rearming Software Triggering Data Acquisition Functions
sens:func:stat
trig:inp trig:inp:rearm init:imm init:cont MINMax LOGGing|STABility
IGNore - One power mea-
surement is per-
formed.
Automatically performs power 
measurements.
Automatically performs power 
measurements until the func-
tion is finished.
SMEasure ON Every hardware trigger starts a new power measure-
ment.
Every hardware trigger starts a 
new power measurement until 
the function is finished.
CMEasure ON The first hardware trigger starts 
the function. Subsequent pow-
er measurements are automati-
cally performed until the 
function is finished.
SMEasure OFF The first hardware trigger starts a new power mea-
surement. Further hardware triggers are ignored until 
you send trig:inp:rearm again.
Every hardware trigger starts a 
new power measurement until 
the function is finished.
CMEasure OFF The first hardware trigger starts 
the function. Subsequent pow-
er measurements are automati-
cally performed until the 
function is finished.