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
Remote Interface Reference 3
Introduction to the SCPI Language
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You can also send engineering unit suffixes (V, A, or SEC)
with numeric parameters. If only specific numeric values are
accepted, the power supply will automatically round the
input numeric parameters. The following command uses a
numeric parameter:
CURR {<current>|MIN|MAX|UP|DOWN}
Discrete parameters
Discrete parameters are used to program settings that have a
limited number of values such as BUS and IMM. Query
responses will always return the short form in all
upper- case letters. The following command uses discrete
parameters:
TRIG:SOUR {BUS|IMM}
Boolean parameters
Boolean parameters represent a single binary condition that
is either true or false. For a false condition, the power
supply will accept OFF or 0. For a true condition, the power
supply will accept ON or 1. When you query a boolean
setting, the power supply will always return 0 or 1. The
following command uses a boolean parameter:
DISP {OFF|ON}
String parameters
String parameters can contain virtually any set of ASCII
characters. A string must begin and end with matching
quotes; either with a single quote or with a double quote.
You can include the quote delimiter as part of the string by
typing it twice without any characters in between. The
following command uses a string parameter:
DISP:TEXT <quoted string>