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MEASurement Commands
Measurement commands are high level commands used to acquire data. They
enable you to trade interchangeability against fine control of the measurement
process.
The CONFigure, FETCh?, READ? and MEASure? commands all have a numeric suffix
which refers to a specific window/measurement. Figure 2-1 shown an example of
the configuration returned result windows.
Measurement Command Descriptions
MEASure? Provides the simplest way to program a power meter for measurements. MEASure? is a
compound command which is equivalent to an ABORT followed by a CONFigure and a READ?.
It does not enable much flexibility or control over measurement settings.
CONFigure Used to change the power meter’s configuration values. CONFigure must then be followed by
another command which takes the measurement—for example, a READ? followed by a FETCh?.
READ? Takes a measurement using parameters previously set up using either CONFigure or lower
level commands. READ? is equivalent to an ABORt followed by an INITiate1 (which performs
the data acquisition) and a FETCh?
FETCh?
Retrieves measurements taken by INITiate
[a]
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[a] INITiate is described in Chapter 14, “TRIGger Subsystem,” on page 639.
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