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
5 Application Programs
Overview
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Overview
This chapter contains two application programs over the
remote interface to help you develop programs for your own
application. Chapter 3, “Remote Interface Reference” lists the
syntax for the SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable
Instruments) commands available to program the power
supply.
All program examples have been tested on a PC with
Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups. Both examples are
for use with GPIB (IEEE 488). These examples require a
VISA (Virtual Instrument Software Architecture) driver with
your GPIB PC card. You should have the “visa.dll” in your
windows/system directory for the GPIB examples to work.
All program examples perform the same task. They step
through voltages and make corresponding current readings
to characterize a power diode.