User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Agilent E3632A DC Power Supply
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Operation and Features
- Overview
- Constant Voltage Operation
- Constant Current Operation
- Storing and Recalling Operating States
- Programming the Overvoltage Protection
- Programming the Overcurrent Protection
- Remote Voltage Sensing
- Disabling the Output
- System-Related Operations
- Remote Interface Configuration
- GPIB Interface Configuration
- RS-232 Interface Configuration
- Calibration
- 3 Remote Interface Reference
- SCPI Command Summary
- Introduction to the SCPI Language
- Simplified Programming Overview
- Using the APPLy Command
- Output Settings and Operation Commands
- Triggering Commands
- System-Related Commands
- Calibration Commands
- RS-232 Interface Commands
- SCPI Status Registers
- What is an event register?
- What is an enable register?
- SCPI status system
- The Questionable Status register
- The Standard Event register
- The Status Byte register
- Using Service Request (SRQ) and Serial POLL
- Using *STB? to read the Status Byte
- Using the Message Available Bit (MAV)
- To interrupt your bus controller using SRQ
- To determine when a command sequence is completed
- Using *OPC to signal when data is in the output buffer
- Status Reporting Commands
- Halting an Output in Progress
- SCPI Conformance Information
- IEEE-488 Conformance Information
- 4 Error Messages
- 5 Application Programs
- 6 Tutorial
- 7 Characteristics and Specifications
3 Remote Interface Reference
Simplified Programming Overview
80 E3632A User’s Guide
Simplified Programming Overview
This section gives an overview of the basic techniques used
to program the power supply over the remote interface. This
section is only an overview and does not give all of the
details you will need to write your own application
programs. Refer to the remainder of this chapter and also
Chapter 5, “Application Programs” for more details and
examples. Also refer to the programming reference manual
that came with your computer for details on outputting
command strings and entering data.
Using the APPLy command
The APPLy command provides the most straightforward
method to program the power supply over the remote
interface. For example, the following statement executed
from your computer will set the power supply to an output
of 3 V rated at 1 A:
APPL 3.0, 1.0
Using the low-level commands
Although the APPLy command provides the most
straightforward method to program the power supply, the
low- level commands give you more flexibility to change
individual parameters. For example, the following statements
executed from your computer will set the power supply to
an output of 3 V rated at 1 A:
VOLT 3.0 Set the output voltage to 3.0 V.
CURR 1.0 Set the output current to 1.0 A.