REMOTE CONTROL (GPIB & RS-232) 5–8
zero then bit 6 of the SBR is set (see Figure 5-5). The SRE is set by the *SRE command and
read by the *SRE? command.
5.2.6.3 Standard Event Status Register
The standard event status register (ESR) contains the 8 bits of the operation status report which
is defined in IEEE 488.2. If one or more event status bit is set to ‘1’ and their enable bits are
also ‘1’, bit 5 (called ESB) of the status register byte is set to ‘1’.
Each bit of the standard event status register is shown below.
BIT
Name Meaning (True = ‘1’)
7 Power On (PON) True when the instrument power supply has been turned OFF
and then ON since the last time this register was read.
6 User Request (URQ) Not used. Always 0.
5 Command Error (CME)
True if the following command errors occur:
An IEEE 488.2 syntax error occurred.
The device received a Group Execute Trigger (GET) inside a
program message.
4 Execution Error (EXE) True when a parameter following a header of a GPIB
command was evaluated by the instrument as being outside
of its legal input range or is otherwise inconsistent with the
instrument’s capabilities.
3 Device Dependent Error
(DDE)
True when any bit is set in the Encoded Message Register.
2 Query Error (QYE) True when attempting to read data from the output buffer in
which no data was present, or when the data was lost.
1 Request Control (RQC) Not used. Always 0.
0 Operation Complete
(OPC)
True when the instrument has completed all selected pending
operations before sending the *OPC command
Figure 5-6 Standard Event Status Register