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
Introduction to the SCPI Language
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Some portions of commands are enclosed in square brackets
([]). The brackets indicate that this portion of the command
is optional. Most optional portions of the command are not
shown in the command description. For the full command
showing all the options, refer to Table 3- 1.
A colon (:) separates a command keyword from a
lower- level keyword. You must insert a blank space to
separate a parameter from a command keyword. If a
command requires more than one parameter, you must
separate adjacent parameters using a comma as shown
below:
SOURce:CURRent:TRIGgered
APPLy 3.5,1.5
Command separators
A colon (:) is used to separate a command keyword from a
lower- level keyword as shown below:
SOURce:CURRent:TRIGgered
A semicolon (;) is used to separate two commands within
the same subsystem, and can also minimize typing. For
example, sending the following command string,
SOUR:VOLT MIN;CURR MAX
is the same as sending the following two commands:
SOUR:VOLT MIN
SOUR:CURR MAX
Use a colon and a semicolon to link commands from
different subsystems. For example, in the following command
string, an error is generated if you do not use the colon and
semicolon:
DISP:TEXT:CLE;:SOUR:CURR MIN