Teledyne LeCroy X-STREAM OSCILLOSCOPES Remote Control - Manual (Page 3)

WM-RCM-E Rev D ISSUED: February 2005
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................. 1
P P A A R R T T O O N N E E : : A A B B O O U U T T R R E E M M O O T T E E C C O O N N T T R R O O L L ...............3
CHAPTER ONE: OVERVIEW.............................................................................. 4
Operate Your X-Stream Scope by Remote Control ............................................................. 5
STANDARDS ........................................................................................................................ 5
PROGRAM MESSAGES....................................................................................................... 5
COMMANDS AND QUERIES ............................................................................................... 7
HEADERS ............................................................................................................................. 8
HEADER PATHS ................................................................................................................... 8
DATA ..................................................................................................................................... 9
CHARACTER DATA .............................................................................................................. 9
NUMERIC DATA.................................................................................................................... 9
STRING DATA..................................................................................................................... 10
BLOCK DATA ...................................................................................................................... 10
RESPONSE MESSAGES ................................................................................................... 10
CHAPTER TWO: CONTROL BY GPIB ............................................................. 12
Talk, Listen or Control .......................................................................................................... 13
INTERFACE ........................................................................................................................ 14
ADDRESS ........................................................................................................................... 14
GPIB SIGNALS ................................................................................................................... 15
I/O BUFFERS...................................................................................................................... 16
USE IEEE 488.1 STANDARD MESSAGES........................................................................ 16
DEVICE CLEAR .................................................................................................................. 17
GROUP EXECUTE TRIGGER............................................................................................ 17
REMOTE ENABLE.............................................................................................................. 17
INTERFACE CLEAR ........................................................................................................... 17
CONFIGURE THE GPIB-DRIVER SOFTWARE................................................................. 17
MAKE SIMPLE TRANSFERS ............................................................................................. 19
USE ADDITIONAL DRIVER CALLS.................................................................................... 21
MAKE SERVICE REQUESTS ............................................................................................ 22
Take Instrument Polls........................................................................................................... 23
DO CONTINUOUS POLLING ............................................................................................. 23
TAKE A SERIAL POLL ........................................................................................................ 24
DO A PARALLEL POLL .......................................................................................................24
PERFORM AN *IST POLL .................................................................................................. 26