CMU  Status Reporting System 
1100.4903.12 5.27  E-8 
Reset Values of the Status Reporting Systems 
Table 5-6 comprises the different commands and events causing the status reporting system to be 
reset. None of the commands, except for *RST and SYSTem:PRESet influences the functional instru-
ment settings. In particular, DCL does not change the instrument settings. 
 
 
Table 5-6   Resetting instrument functions 
Event 
Switching on 
supply voltage 
 
DCL,SDC 
 
 
 Power-On-Status-
Clear 
(Device Clear,
Selected Device
Clear) 
*RST or SYS-
Tem:PRESet 
STATus:PRESet *CLS 
Effect 0 1  
 
Clear STB,ESR  
 
yes 
     
yes 
Clear SRE,ESE 
 
yes 
       
Clear PPE 
 
yes 
       
Clear EVENt parts of the 
registers 
 
yes 
     
yes 
Clear ENABle parts of all 
OPERation-and QUES-
Tionable registers,  
Fill ENABle parts of all 
other registers with "1". 
 
yes 
    
 yes 
 
Fill PTRansition parts with 
„1" 
Clear NTRansition parts 
 
yes 
    
 yes 
 
Clear error queue  yes  yes 
     
yes 
Clear output buffer  yes  yes   yes   1)   1)  1) 
Clear command process-
ing and input buffer 
yes yes  yes 
      
 
1)  Every command being the first in a command line, i.e. immediately following a <PROGRAM MESSAGE TERMINATOR> 
clears the output buffer.