TDS200/1000/2000 Series Oscilloscope Programmer Manual
Glossary−1
Glossary
ASCII
Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. Controllers transmit commands to the digitizing
oscilloscope using ASCII character encoding.
Address
A 7-bit code that identifies an instrument on the communication
bus. The digitizing oscilloscope must have a unique address for
the controller to recognize and transmit commands to it.
Backus-Naur Form (BNF)
A standard notation system for command syntax. The syntax in
this manual use BNF notation.
Controller
A computer or other device that sends commands to and accepts
responses from the digitizing oscilloscope.
EOI
A mnemonic referring to the control line “End or Identify” on
the GPIB interface bus. One of the two possible end-of-message
terminators.
EOM
A generic acronym referring to the end-of-message terminator.
The end-of-message terminator is either an EOI or the ASCII
code for line feed (LF).
IEEE
Acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
RS-232
A serial, full-duplex, asynchronous communication port that
follows ANSI/EIA/TIA-562-1989[1], ANSI/EIA/
TIA-574-1990[2], and CCITT V.24-1989[3] standards.
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