Keysight M8194A - Programming Recommendations

Keysight M8194A 120 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator User Guide 107
Remote Programming 4
• /NoAutoID: Do not automatically select ports and number for the
connections, use the values specified with /Socket, /Telnet, /Inst,
/HiSLIP or their respective default values instead.
If both /NoAutoID and /AutoID are specified, /AutoID overrides
/NoAutoID.
Programming Recommendations
This section lists some recommendations for programming the instrument:
1 Start programming from the default setting. The common command
for setting the default setting is:
*RST
2 Use the binary data format when transferring waveform data.
The SCPI standard defines a long and a short form of the commands.
For fast programming speed, it is recommended to use the short forms.
The short forms of the commands are represented by upper case
letters. For example the short form of the command to set 10mV offset
is:
:VOLT:OFFS 0.01
3 To improve programming speed it is also allowed to skip optional
subsystem command parts. Optional subsystem command parts are
depicted in square brackets, e.g.: Set amplitude
[:SOURce]:VOLTage[1|2]
[:LEVel][:IMMediate][:AMPLitude]
Sufficient to use:
:VOLT
M8194A is a 4 channel instrument. Parameters have to be specified for
output 1, 2, 3, and 4. If there is no output specified the command will
set the default output 1. So, for setting an offset of 10 mV for output
1 and output 2 the commands are:
:VOLT:OFFS 0.01 # sets offset of 10mV at output 1
:VOLT1:OFFS 0.01 # sets offset of 10mV at output 1
:VOLT2:OFFS 0.01 # sets offset of 10mV at output 2
NOTE
The first port not assigned by IANA is 49152 (IANA, Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority, http://www.iana.org).