Manual

WM-RCM-E Rev D ISSUED: February 2005 iii
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INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................. 1
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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
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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