7Formats and Data Flow
250 Keysight 53220A/53230A User’s Guide
Data flow
The flow of measurement data within the counter is summarized in Figure 7-1.
Figure 7-1 Data flow within the 53220A/53230A counter.
Reading locations include the front panel, reading memory (volatile), output 
buffer, internal flash memory (non-volatile), and external USB memory. 
The commands which determine data flow are listed in Table 7-2 and are 
described in the following paragraphs.
output 
buffer
Keysight 53220A/53230A Counter
LAN
GPIB
USB
MMEMory:STORe:DATA
INITiate:IMMediate
READ?
(measurements)
FETCh?
R?
DATA:REMove?
direction of data flow
DATA:LAST?
DATA:POINTs:EVENt:THReshold
USB Memory Device
volatile reading memory
(1M readings) 
battery 
flash 
instrument  firmware 
calibration  
constants
state storage 
MMEMory:LOAD:STATe
MMEMory:STORe:STATe
host port
counter flash (non-volatile) memory
internal  flash
(5M readings) 
MMEMory:UPLoad?
MMEMory:UPLoad?
< instrument states >
MMEMory:DOWNoad:DATA
MMEMory:DOWNoad:DATA