R&S FSL  Status Reporting System 
1300.2519.12 5.27  E-11 
Reset Values of the Status Reporting System 
Table 5–13  contains the different commands and events causing the status reporting system to be 
reset. None of the commands, except *RST and SYSTem:PRESet, influences the functional instrument 
settings. In particular, DCL does not change the instrument settings. 
 
Table 5–13  Resetting the status reporting system 
 Event Switching on 
supply voltage 
 
DCL,SDC 
 
Power–On–
Status–Clear 
(Device 
Clear, 
Selected 
Device 
Clear) 
*RST or 
SYSTem:PRE
Set 
STATus:PRE
Set 
*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 
QUEStionable 
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 
processing 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.