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Keysight E3634A User Manual

Keysight E3634A
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14 Keysight E3633A and E3634A User’s Guide
System-Related Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Calibration Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
RS-232 Interface Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The SCPI Status Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
What is an event register? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
What is an enable register? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
SCPI Status System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The questionable status register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The standard event register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
The status byte register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Using Service Request (SRQ) and serial POLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Using *STB? to read the status byte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Using the Message Available bit (MAV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
To interrupt your bus controller using SRQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
To determine when a command sequence is completed . . . . . . . . 139
Using *OPC to signal when data is in the output buffer . . . . . . . . . 139
Status Reporting Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
An Introduction to the SCPI Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Command format used in this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Command separators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Using the MIN and MAX parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Querying parameter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
SCPI command terminators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
IEEE-488.2 common commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
SCPI parameter types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Halting an Output in Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
SCPI Conformance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
SCPI confirmed commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Non-SCPI commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
IEEE-488 Conformance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

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Keysight E3634A Specifications

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BrandKeysight
ModelE3634A
CategoryPower Supply
LanguageEnglish

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