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Chapter 5
REMOTE OPERATION
Contents
Preparing the instrument for remote operation ..............................................................................5-2
Introduction.............................................................................................................................5-2
Local lockout
..........................................................................................................................5-2
Rem
ote/local operation...........................................................................................................5-2
Rem
ote operation selection............................................................................................................5-2
RS-232 operation
...........................................................................................................................5-3
RS-232 control port
................................................................................................................5-3
Handshaking
...........................................................................................................................5-3
Control characters
...................................................................................................................5-3
Setting RS-232 param
eters .....................................................................................................5-3
GPIB operation
..............................................................................................................................5-4
GPIB control port
...................................................................................................................5-4
Setting GPIB address
..............................................................................................................5-4
GPIB functions
..............................................................................................................................5-4
Device listening elem
ents ..............................................................................................................5-5
Device talking elem
ents.................................................................................................................5-5
Program
ming..................................................................................................................................5-6
Program
messages...................................................................................................................5-6
Com
pound headers .................................................................................................................5-6
Program
data...........................................................................................................................5-7
Message exchange protocol
....................................................................................................5-7
Rem
ote/local operation...........................................................................................................5-7
Com
mon commands and queries (IEEE 488.2)......................................................................5-7
Device-dependent com
mands.................................................................................................5-9
Default settings
.......................................................................................................................5-9
Source selection
...........................................................................................................................5-10
Com
biner mode............................................................................................................................5-10
Coupling (carrier frequency and RF level)
..................................................................................5-10
Carrier frequency (source-specific)
.............................................................................................5-12
RF level (source-specific)
............................................................................................................5-13
M
odulation mode (source-specific) .............................................................................................5-14
M
odulation control (source-specific)...........................................................................................5-14
Frequency
modulation (and FSK) (source-specific)....................................................................5-15
Phase m
odulation (source-specific) .............................................................................................5-17
Am
plitude modulation (source-specific)......................................................................................5-19
Pulse m
odulation (source-specific)..............................................................................................5-21
Mem
ory − store............................................................................................................................5-22
Mem
ory − recall...........................................................................................................................5-22
Mem
ory − erase ...........................................................................................................................5-22
Mem
ory − protection ...................................................................................................................5-23
Sweep operation
...........................................................................................................................5-24
Sweep m
ode.................................................................................................................................5-24
Sweep control
..............................................................................................................................5-25
Miscellaneous com
mands (source-specific) ................................................................................5-26
Miscellaneous com
mands (not source-specific) ..........................................................................5-27
Status byte
....................................................................................................................................5-30
St
atus data structure − register model..........................................................................................5-31
Standard event registers
...............................................................................................................5-32
Hardware event registers
..............................................................................................................5-33
Coupling event registers
..............................................................................................................5-34
Instrum
ent event registers............................................................................................................5-35
Queue flag details
........................................................................................................................5-36
Status byte when read by *stb?
....................................................................................................5-37
Status byte when read by serial poll
.............................................................................................5-38
Sum
mary of status reporting commands and queries...................................................................5-39
List of figures
Fig. 5-1 Remote control utility......................................................................................................5-2