HP 54501A - Program Examples

Program
Examples
The
program
examples given
for
each
command
in the
following
chapters
and
appendices
were
written
on
an
HP
9000
Series
200/300
controller
using
the HP
BASIC
4.0 programming
language.
The
programs
always
assume
the
oscilloscope
is
at
address 707.
If
a
printer
is
used,
it
is
always
assumed
to
be
at
address
701.
In
these
examples,
special
attention
should be
paid
to
the
ways
in
which
the
command/query
can
be
sent.
The
way
the
instrument
is
set
up
to
respond
to
a command/query
has
no
bearing
on
how
you
send
the
command/query.
That is, the
command/query
can
be
sent
using
the
longform
or
shortfonn
if
one
exists
for
that
command.
You
can
send
the
command/query
using
upper
case
(capital)
letters
or
lower case
(small)
letters,
both
work
the
same.
Also,
the
data
can
be
sent
using
almost
any
form
you
wish.
If
you
were
sending
a
channel
1
range
value
of
100
mV,
that
value could
be
sent
using a
decimal
(.1),
or an
exponential
(le-1 or
l.OE-1),
or
a
suffix
(100
mV
or
100MV).
As
an example,
set
channel
1
range
to
100
mV
by
sending
one
of
the
following:
•
commands
in
longform
and
using
the decimal
format.
OUTPUT
707;":CHANNEL1:RANGE
.1"
•
commands
in
shortfonn and
using
an
exponential
format.
OUTPUT 707;":CHAN1:RANG
1E-1"
•
commands
using
lower case letters,
shortforms,
and
a
suffix.
OUTPUT
707;":chanl:rang 100
mV
Note
In
these
examples, the
colon as
the
first
character
of
the
command
is
optional.
The
space
between
RANGE
and
the
argument
is
required.
HP
54501A
Programming
Programming
and Documentation Conventions
4-11