Status structure ......................................................................... 4-16
Condition registers ............................................................ 4-17
Event registers ................................................................... 4-17
Enable registers ................................................................. 4-17
Queues ............................................................................... 4-20
Status Byte and Service Request (SRQ) ........................... 4-21
Trigger model (GPIB operation) .............................................. 4-24
Idle and initiate .................................................................. 4-25
Trigger model operation .................................................... 4-25
Programming syntax ................................................................. 4-27
Command words ............................................................... 4-27
Query commands ............................................................... 4-29
Case sensitivity .................................................................. 4-29
Long-form and short-form versions .................................. 4-29
Short-form rules ................................................................ 4-30
Program messages ............................................................. 4-30
Response messages ........................................................... 4-33
Message exchange protocol .............................................. 4-33
Common commands ................................................................. 4-34
*CLS — Clear Status ........................................................ 4-34
*ESE <NRf> — Event Enable .......................................... 4-35
*ESE? — Event Enable Query .......................................... 4-35
*ESR? — Event Status Register Query ............................ 4-36
*IDN? — Identification Query ......................................... 4-38
*OPC — Operation Complete ........................................... 4-38
*OPC? — Operation Complete Query .............................. 4-40
*OPT? — Option Identification Query ............................. 4-41
*RCL — Recall ................................................................. 4-41
*RST — RESET ............................................................... 4-42
*SAV — Save ................................................................... 4-42
*SRE <NRf> — Service Request Enable ......................... 4-42
*SRE? — Service Request Enable Query ......................... 4-42
*STB? — Status Byte Query ............................................ 4-44
*TRG — Trigger ............................................................... 4-45
*TST?-Self-Test Query ..................................................... 4-45
*WAI — Wait-to-Continue ............................................... 4-46
5 SCPI Command Reference
SCPI signal oriented measurement commands .......................... 5-2
CONFigure Command ........................................................ 5-2
FETCh? command ............................................................... 5-3
READ? command ............................................................... 5-4
MEASure command ............................................................ 5-5
SCPI command subsystems reference tables ............................. 5-6