208 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes Programming Guide
4 Measurement Operations & Settings
Triggering - The TRIGger Subsystem
The TRIGger Subsystem allows you to configure how the instrument reacts
to incoming or outgoing triggers.
Table 8 Triggering and Power Measurements
Hard ware
Triggering
Trigger Rearming Software Triggering Data Acquisition Functions
sens:func:stat
trig:inp trig:inp:rearm init:imm init:cont MINMax LOGGing|STABility
IGNore - One power
measurement is
performed.
Automatically performs power
measurements.
Automatically performs power
measurements until the function is
finished.
SMEasure ON Every hardware trigger starts a new power measurement. Every hardware trigger starts a new
power measurement until the
function is finished.
CMEasure ON The first hard ware trigger starts the
function. Subsequent power
measurements are automatically
performed until the function is
finished.
SMEasure OFF The first hardware trigger starts a new power measurement.
Further hardware triggers are ignored until you send
trig:inp:rearm again.
Every hardware trigger starts a new
power measurement until the
function is finished.
CMEasure OFF The first hard ware trigger starts the
function. Subsequent power
measurements are automatically
performed until the function is
finished.