BNC 835 Programmer Manual - Manual (Page 3)

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Table of Contents
WARRANTY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 5
2 PROGRAMMING THE INSTRUMENT ........................................................................................................ 6
2.1 E THERNET LAN ............................................................................................................................................. 6
2.1.1 Ethernet Interface Connection and Setup........................................................................................ 6
2.1.2 Using Sockets LAN ........................................................................................................................... 8
2.1.3 Using and Configuring VXI-11 (VISA) ............................................................................................... 8
2.1.4 Using Telnet LAN (Port 18) .............................................................................................................. 9
2.2 USB (USBTMC)........................................................................................................................................... 9
2.2.1 USB-TMC Interface Connection and Setup using VISA..................................................................... 9
2.2.2 USB-TMC Interface Connection and Setup using Berkeley Nucleonics API .................................... 10
2.3 GPIB I NTERFACE C ONNECTION AND S ETUP ....................................................................................................... 10
2.3.1 General GPIB information ............................................................................................................. 10
2.4 SCPI C OMMANDS ....................................................................................................................................... 10
3 IEEE-488 INTERFACE COMMANDS ......................................................................................................... 12
3.1 IEEE M ANDATED AND O PTIONAL C OMMON C OMMANDS ................................................................................... 12
3.1.1 *CLS ............................................................................................................................................... 12
3.1.2 *ESE ................................................................................................................................... 13
3.1.3 *ESE? ............................................................................................................................................. 13
3.1.4 *IDN? ............................................................................................................................................. 13
3.1.5 *OPC .............................................................................................................................................. 13
3.1.6 *OPC? ............................................................................................................................................ 13
3.1.7 *OPT? ............................................................................................................................................ 14
3.1.8 *RCL ..................................................................................................................................... 14
3.1.9 *RST ............................................................................................................................................... 14
3.1.10 *SAV ............................................................................................................................... 14
3.1.11 *SRE .............................................................................................................................. 14
3.1.12 *SRE? ........................................................................................................................................ 14
3.1.13 *STB? ........................................................................................................................................ 15
3.1.14 *TRG ......................................................................................................................................... 15
3.1.15 *TST? ........................................................................................................................................ 15
3.1.16 *WAI ......................................................................................................................................... 15
4 SCPI COMMANDS .................................................................................................................................. 16
4.1 I NTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................ 16
4.2 SCPI C OMMAND T YPES ................................................................................................................................ 16
4.3 SCPI C OMMAND S YNTAX .............................................................................................................................. 17
4.4 H IERARCHICAL C OMMAND S TRUCTURE ............................................................................................................ 18
4.5 S TATUS S YSTEM P ROGRAMMING .................................................................................................................... 18
4.6 S TATUS R EGISTERS ....................................................................................................................................... 19
4.7 S TATUS G ROUP R EPORTING ........................................................................................................................... 20
4.8 S TANDARD E VENT S TATUS G ROUP .................................................................................................................. 20
4.9 O PERATION S TATUS G ROUP ........................................................................................................................... 21
4.10 Q UESTIONABLE S TATUS G ROUP ................................................................................................................. 21
5 SCPI COMMAND DESCRIPTION .............................................................................................................. 22
5.1 :ABOR T S UBSYSTEM .................................................................................................................................... 22
5.2 :INIT IATE S UBSYSTEM .................................................................................................................................. 23
5.3 :OUTP UT S UBSYSTEM .......................................................................................................................... 24
5.4 [SOUR CE ]:FREQ UENCY S UBSYSTEM .............................................................................................................. 25
5.5 [SOUR CE ]:CHIR P S UBSYSTEM ...................................................................................................................... 26
5.6 [SOUR CE ]:PHAS E S UBSYSTEM ..................................................................................................................... 28