TDS200, TDS1000/2000, TDS1000B/2000B, TPS2000 Programmer
Glossary- 1
Glossary
ASCII
Acronym for the America n Standa rd Code for Inform ation
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 int erface bus. One of the two possible end-of-message
terminators.
EOM
A generic acronym re ferring to the end-of-message te rminator.
For GPIB, the end-of-message terminator is either an EOI or the
ASCII code for line feed (LF). For RS--232, the end-of-message
terminator is the ASCII code for line feed (LF). For USB, the
end-of-message terminator is the EOM bit in a USBTMC
message.
GPIB Address
When communicating with a TDS1000B or TDS2000B series
oscilloscope using a TEK-USB-488 adapter, you can set a
unique GPIB address for the oscilloscope in the UTILITY"
Options " GPIB Setup option.
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