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Advanced Operations
Status Reporting
Communicate Status Register Group
The Communicate Status Register Group contains information about
the Test Set’s hardware. This status group is accessed using the
STATus commands. The Communicate Status Register Group uses
16-bit registers and includes a Condition Register, Transition Filters,
an Event Register, an Enable Register, and a Summary Message. Refer
to the “Status Reporting Structure Overview” on page 121 for a
discussion of status register operation. Figure 6-14 shows the structure
and STATus commands for the Communicate Status Register Group.
Figure 6-14 Communicate Status Register Group
0
:STATus: COMMunicate: ENABle
?
<integer>
:STATus: COMMunicate: EVENt ?
:STATus: COMMunicate
:PTRansition
:NTRansition
?
<integer>
?
<integer>
:STATus: COMMunicate: CONDition ?
Summary Message Bit
Condition
Register
Transition
Filter Registers
Event
Register
Enable
Register
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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15
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(to bit 6 of Hardware
Status Register Group
#1 Condition Register)