Specifications

Syntax and Commands
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Special Characters
The Line Feed (LF) character or the New Line (NL) character (ASCII 10), and all
characters in the range of ASCII 127-255 are defined as special characters. These
characters are used in arbitrary block arguments only; using these characters in
other parts of any command yields unpredictable results.
Abbreviating Commands,
Queries, and Parameters
You can abbreviate most SCPI commands, queries, and parameters to an accepted
short form. This manual shows these commands as a combination of upper and
lower case letters. The upper case letters indicate the accepted short form of a
command, as shown in Figure 2-3. The accepted short form and the long form are
equivalent and request the same action of the instrument.
Figure 2-3: Example of abbreviating a command
Long form of a
command SOURce1:FREQuency 100
Minimum information needed for
accepted short form
Accepted short form
of a command
SOUR1:FREQ 100
NOTE. The numeric suffix of a command or query may be included in either the
long form or short form. The arbitrary/function generator will default to “1” if no
suffix is used.