Calculating AC characteristics accuracy ................................................................................. 8-20 
Calculating dB characteristics accuracy .................................................................................. 8-21 
Additional derating factors ....................................................................................................... 8-21 
Understanding Precision Time Protocol (PTP) .................................................................. 8-22 
 Introduction to TSP operation ................................................................................... 9-1 
Introduction to TSP operation .............................................................................................. 9-1 
Controlling the instrument by sending individual command messages ..................................... 9-1 
Queries ..................................................................................................................................... 9-2 
Data retrieval commands .......................................................................................................... 9-3 
Information on scripting and programming ................................................................................ 9-4 
Files .......................................................................................................................................... 9-4 
Display operations ................................................................................................................... 9-10 
About TSP commands ....................................................................................................... 9-21 
Alarms ..................................................................................................................................... 9-21 
Bit manipulation and logic operations ...................................................................................... 9-21 
Channel ................................................................................................................................... 9-23 
Data queue.............................................................................................................................. 9-24 
Digital I/O ................................................................................................................................ 9-24 
Display .................................................................................................................................... 9-25 
DMM ....................................................................................................................................... 9-25 
Error queue ............................................................................................................................. 9-26 
Event log ................................................................................................................................. 9-27 
File I/O .................................................................................................................................... 9-27 
GPIB ....................................................................................................................................... 9-28 
Instrument identification .......................................................................................................... 9-28 
LAN and LXI ............................................................................................................................ 9-29 
Local node............................................................................................................................... 9-30 
PTP ......................................................................................................................................... 9-30 
Reading buffer ......................................................................................................................... 9-31 
Reset ....................................................................................................................................... 9-31 
Queries and response messages ............................................................................................ 9-31 
Saved setups .......................................................................................................................... 9-32 
Scan ........................................................................................................................................ 9-32 
Scripting .................................................................................................................................. 9-33 
Status model ........................................................................................................................... 9-33 
Slot .......................................................................................................................................... 9-34 
Time ........................................................................................................................................ 9-34 
Top level instrument controls .................................................................................................. 9-35 
Triggering ................................................................................................................................ 9-36 
TSP-Link ................................................................................................................................. 9-37 
TSP-Net .................................................................................................................................. 9-37 
Userstrings .............................................................................................................................. 9-38 
 Instrument programming ......................................................................................... 10-1 
Fundamentals of scripting for TSP ..................................................................................... 10-1 
What is a script? ...................................................................................................................... 10-2 
Run-time and nonvolatile memory storage of scripts .............................................................. 10-2 
What can be included in scripts? ............................................................................................. 10-2 
Commands that cannot be used in scripts .............................................................................. 10-3 
Manage scripts ........................................................................................................................ 10-3 
Working with scripts in nonvolatile memory............................................................................. 10-9 
Run a user script from the instrument front panel ................................................................. 10-11 
Load a script from the instrument front panel ........................................................................ 10-12 
Save a script from the instrument front panel ........................................................................ 10-13 
Interactive script .................................................................................................................... 10-14