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Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition 15

Introduction to Programming

This chapter gives general information on how to control your instrument

remotely.

Descriptions for the actual commands for the instruments are given in the

following chapters. The information in these chapters is specific to the

Agilent 8163A/B Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A/B Lightwave

Measurement System, and Agilent 8166A/B Lightwave Multichannel

System and assumes that you are already familiar with programming the

GPIB.

GPIB Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -16

Setting the GPIB Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -17

Returning the Instrument to Local Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -18

Message Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -19

How the Input Queue Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -20

The Output Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -21

The Error Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -22

Programming and Syntax Diagram Conventions. . . . . . . -23

Short Form and Long Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -24

Command and Query Syntax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -25

Common Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -29

Common Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -30

Common Status Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -31

The Status Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -33

Status Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -33

Status System for 8163A/B & 8164A/B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -35

Status System for 8166A/B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -36

Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -37

Status Command Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -40

Other Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -41

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