Agilent Technologies N9340A - Manual (Page 118)

6 SCPI Command Reference
116 N9340A User’s Guide
INITiate Subsystem
The INITiate subsystem is used to control the
initiation of the trigger. Refer to the TRIGger
subsystem for related commands.
Continuous or Single Measurements
:INITiate:CONTinuous OFF|ON|0|1
:INITiate:CONTinuous?
Selects whether the trigger system is continuously
initiated or not.
This command affects sweep if not in a
measurement, and affects trigger when in a
measurement. A
“measurement” refers to any of
the functions under the
MEAS key. This corresponds
to continuous sweep or single sweep operation
when not in a measurement, and continuous
measurement or single measurement operation
when in a measurement.
When not in a measurement, this command does
the following:
• When
ON at the completion of each sweep cycle,
the sweep system immediately initiates another
sweep cycle.
• When
OFF, the sweep system remains in an “idle”
state until CONTinuous is set to
ON or an
:
INITiate[:IMMediate] command is received.
On receiving the
:INITiate[:IMMediate]
command, it will go through a single sweep
cycle, and then return to the “idle” state.
• The query returns 1 or 0 into the output buffer.
1 is returned when there is continuous sweeping.
0 is returned when there is only a single sweep.
When in a measurement, this command does the
following: