TDS5000B Online Programmer Guide
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Command Groups
Acquisition Command Group
Use the commands in the Acquisition Command Group to set up the
modes and functions that control how the instrument acquires the sig-
nals you input to the channels and processes them into waveforms.
Using these commands for acquiring waveforms, you can do the fol-
lowing:
H Start and stop acquisitions.
H Control whether each waveform is simply acquired, averaged, or
enveloped over successive acquisitions of that waveform.
H Set the controls or conditions that start and stop acquisitions.
H Determine the action the system takes upon completing an
acquisition, such as saving all waveforms and taking a measure-
ment when the acquisition is stopped.
H Control acquisition of acquired channel waveforms.
H Set acquisition parameters.
Command
Description
ACQuire:MODe Sets or returns acquisition mode
ACQuire:NUMACq? Returns the number of acquisi-
tions that have occurred
ACQuire:NUMAVg Sets or returns number of acquisi-
tions for an averaged waveform
ACQuire:NUMEnv Sets or returns number of acquisi-
tions for envelope waveform
ACQuire:NUMSAMples Sets or returns the number of
samples that make up a WfmDB
for single sequence mode and
Mask Pass/Fail Completion Test
ACQuire:SAMPlingmode This command sets or queries the
sampling mode
ACQuire:STATE Starts, stops, or returns acquisi-
tion state
ACQuire:STOPAfter Sets or returns whether the ac-
quisition is continuous or single
sequence
ACQuire? Returns acquisition parameters
FASTAcq:STATE Enables, disables, or returns state
of Fast Acquisition mode
FASTAcq? Returns the Fast Acquisition state