5-10 Programmer’s Guide
Using Status Registers
The Analyzer's Status Register Sets
The Analyzer's Status Register Sets
The analyzer uses eight register sets to keep track of instrument status:
Status Byte *STB? and *SRE
Device Status STATus:DEVice
Limit Fail STATus:QUEStionable:LIMit
Questionable
Status STATus:QUEStionable
Standard Event
Status *ESR? and *ESE
Measuring
Status STATus:OPERation:MEASuring
Averaging
Status STATus:OPERation:AVERaging
Operational
Status STATus:OPERation
Their reporting structure is summarized in Figure 5-4. They are
described in greater detail in the following section.
NOTE Register bits not explicitly presented in the following sections are not
used by the analyzer. A query to one of these bits returns a value of 0.