Specifications

30 Chapter 2
Programming Command Guidelines
Using the Status Registers
Standard Event Status Enable Register
In addition to the standard event status register, the standard event status group
also contains a standard event status enable register as follows:
Figure 2-5 Standard Event Status Enable Register
This register lets you choose which bits in the standard event status register will set
the summary bit (bit 5 of the status byte register) to 1. Send the *ESE <num>
command where <num> is the sum of the decimal values of the bits you want to
enable. For example, to enable bit 7 and bit 6 so that whenever either of those bits
is set to 1, the standard event status summary bit of the status byte register will be
set to 1 by sending the command *ESE 192 (= 128 + 64) (see Figure 2-1 on page
26). The command *ESE? returns the decimal value of the sum of the bits
previously enabled with the *ESE <num> command.