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Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
Status Reporting
Communicate Status Register Group
The Communicate Status Register Group contains information about the Test
Set’s hardware. This status group is accessed using the STATus commands. The
Communicate Status Register Group uses 16-bit registers and includes a
Condition Register, Transition Filters, an Event Register, an Enable Register, and
a Summary Message. Refer to the
"Status Reporting Structure Overview" on page
260
for a discussion of status register operation. Figure 17 shows the structure and
STATus commands for the Communicate Status Register Group.
Figure 17 Communicate Status Register Group
0
:STATus: COMMunicate: ENABle
?
<integer>
:STATus: COMMunicate: EVENt ?
:STATus: COMMunicate
:PTRansition
:NTRansition
?
<integer>
?
<integer>
:STATus: COMMunicate: CONDition ?
Summary Message Bit
Condition
Register
Transition
Filter Registers
Event
Register
Enable
Register
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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15
ch4drw14.drw
(to bit 6 of Hardware
Status Register Group
#1 Condition Register)