TH2883 Series Operation Manual Chapter 8 SCPI Command reference
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The command can be completely spelled out or in abbreviated type. (The rules of command
abbreviation are described later in this section, and abbreviation is spelling out in upper letter
case.)
For example: COMPARATOR:AREASIZE ON = COMP:AREA ON
The command header should be followed by a question mark (?) to generate a query for that
command.
For example: COMP:AREA?
Multiple command rules:
The semicolon (;) can be used as a separator to execute multiple commands on a single line. The
multiple command rules are as follows.
Commands at the same level and in the same subsystem command group can be separated by
a semicolon (;) on a multiple command line.
For example: COMP:AREA:STAT ON;RANG 0,960
STA ON and RANG 0,960 are commands in the same level and subcommands under AREA.
To restart commands from the highest level, a semicolon (;) must be used as the separator, and
then a colon (:), which shows that the restarted command is a command at the top of the
command tree, must follow.
For example: COMP:AREA:STAT ON;:COMP:AREA:RANG 0,960
The GPIB common commands can be placed in previous, middle or last on a multiple
command line, partitioned off with semicolons.
For example: COMP:AREA ON;*trg;DIFF ON
Short-form rules:
If complete commands and parameters (called long form afterwards) have four characters or
less, the long form and short form are the same.
When the long form has more than 4 characters:
1. And if the 4th character is a vowel, the short form is the first 3 characters of the long form.
2. If the 4th character is not a vowel, the short form is the first 4 characters.
For example:
TIME abbreviates to TIME.
TRIGger abbreviates to TRIG.
DELete abbreviates to DEL.
FREQuency abbreviates to FREQ.
If the long form mnemonic is defined as a phrase rather than a single word, then the long form
mnemonic is the first character of the first word(s) followed by the entire last word. The above
rules, when the long form mnemonic is a single word, are then applied to the resulting long
form mnemonic to obtain the short form.
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