Specifications

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System Command Reference Section
System Level Status and Control
System Level Status and Control
The SYSTem subsystem is mostly defined by SCPI for functions that are not related to
instrument performance.
Audio Output on Bit Errors
The SYSTem:BEEPer commands configure the error detector’s built-in audio output.
SYSTem:BEEPer[:IMMediate] [<freq> [,<time> [,<vol>]]]
Causes an audible tone to be generated. The optional parameters <freq>, <time> and
<vol> are intended (in SCPI) to set the frequency, duration and volume of the beep.
There is no query form of this command.
SYSTem:BEEPer:STATe <boolean>
Controls whether the error detector beeps when an error is detected. (In this context
“error” means a erroneous data bit on the data input not an internal instrument error nor an
GP-IB message error.)
The *RST selection is OFF.
SYSTem:BEEPer:VOLume <numeric value>
This command sets the volume of the audible beep that sounds when an error occurs.
Values between 1 and 15 are permitted.
The *RST selection is 1.
SYSTem:ERRor?
This query-only command will pull the next error from the error queue, and return the
error number and a string describing the error. The error queue is of depth ten.
NOTE SCPI-defined errors are all negative. The positive error numbers are
specific to the Error Performance Analyzer. The SCPI Messages
section at the rear of this manual contains a list of error numbers.