Manual

P ART O NE : ABOUT REMOTE CONTROL
54 ISSUED: February 2005 WM-RCM-E Rev D
USE THE WAVEFORM QUERY
Use the WAVEFORM? query to transfer waveform data in block formats defined by the IEEE 488.2 standard.
You can then download the response back to your instrument by using the WAVEFORM command. All your
waveform’s logical blocks can be read with the query C1:WAVEFORM? Completeness, as well as good use of
time and space are the advantages of this approach when you have to read many waveforms with the same
acquisition conditions, or when you are interested only in large amounts of raw integer data. Moreover, you can
choose any single block for reading with a query such as C1:WAVEFORM? DAT1. See Part Two for the
various block names.
You can place the binary response to a query of the form C1:WAVEFORM? or C1:WAVEFORM? ALL in a
disk file, then dump it using the GPIB bus. Do this with default settings to show the hexadecimal and ASCII
form, as on the following page.
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: A waveform query response can easily be
a block containing over 16 million bytes if it is in
binary format, and twice as much if the HEX
option is used.