User`s guide

4- 44 Agilent B2900 User’s Guide, Edition 2
Front Panel Reference
I/O key group
Data Output Format
Pressing the Format softkey displays the following five softkeys for setting the
format and elements of the output data.
Measure Displays the Format (Measure) dialog box used to set the
elements of the measurement data output. See
“Format
(Measure) dialog box” on page 4-44.
Math/Limit Displays the Format (Math/Limit) dialog box used to set the
elements of the math result data output and the limit test result
data output. See
“Format (Math/Limit) dialog box” on page
4-45.
Trace Displays the Format (Trace) dialog box used to set the elements
of the trace data output. See
“Format (Trace) dialog box” on
page 4-45.
Data Type Displays the following three softkeys for specifying the data
output format. The present setting is indicated by an asterisk on
the softkey label.
ASCII ASCII format
REAL32 IEEE-754 single precision format, 4-byte
REAL64 IEEE-754 double precision format, 8-byte
Byte Swap Displays the following two softkeys for enabling or disabling
the byte swap for the IEEE-754 precision format data output.
The present setting is indicated by an asterisk on the softkey
label.
OFF Disables the byte swap. Normal byte order.
ON Enables the byte swap. Reverse byte order.
If Byte Swap=ON, the byte order is reversed. Byte 1 to byte 4 are sent in the order of
byte 4 to byte 1 for the IEEE-754 single precision format, and byte 1 to byte 8 are
sent in the order of byte 8 to byte 1 for the IEEE-754 double precision format.
Format (Measure) dialog box
This dialog box provides the following parameters for setting the elements of the
measurement data output.
Voltage Voltage data output, ON or OFF
Current Current data output, ON or OFF