Notices 7
Copyright Notice 7
Manual Part Number 7
Edition 7
Published by 7
Warranty 7
Technology Licenses 7
U.S. Government Rights 8
Third Party Licenses 8
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) 8
Declarations of Conformity 8
Safety Information 9
1 E36200 Series Remote Operation 10
Introduction to the SCPI Language 11
Command Format Used in this Manual 12
Command Separators 12
Querying Parameter Settings 13
SCPI Command Terminators 13
IEEE-488.2 Common Commands 13
SCPI Parameter Types 14
Halting an Output in Progress 15
Programming Ranges and Output Identifiers 15
Channels and Channel Lists 16
Channel list parameter (E36233A and E36234A only) 16
SCPIError Messages 17
Execution error codes 17
Calibration error codes 24
Self-test error codes 24
Reset and Non-volatile Settings 25
Reset (*RST) settings 25
Non-volatile settings 28
Non-volatile LANsettings 28
SCPI Status Registers 29
What is an event register? 32
What is an enable register? 32
What is a multiple logical output? 32
The Questionable Status register 33
The Questionable Instrument register 33
The Questionable Instrument Summary register 33
The Standard Event register 34
The Status Byte summary register 34
Using Service Request (SRQ) and serial POLL 35
Using *STB? to read the Status Byte 35
Using the message available bit (MAV) 35
To interrupt your bus controller using SRQ 36
To determine when a command sequence is completed 36
Using *OPC to signal when data is in the output buffer 36
2 SCPI Programming 37
ABORt Subsystem 38
ABORt (@<chanlist>) 38
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