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112 Agilent N8211A/N8212A Performance Upconverter Synthetic Instrument Module, 250 kHz to 20 / 40 GHz
4 Programming the Status Register System
Standard Event Status Enable Register
The Standard Event Status Enable Register lets you choose which bits in the Standard
Event Status Register set the summary bit (bit 5 of the Status Byte Register) to 1.
Standard Operation Status Group
The Operation Status Group is used to determine the specific event that set bit 7 in the
Status Byte Register. This group consists of the Standard Operation Condition Register, the
Standard Operation Transition Filters (negative and positive), the Standard Operation Event
Register, and the Standard Operation Event Enable Register.
6 Always set to 0.
7 Power On. A 1 in this bit position indicates that the N8211A/N8212A has been turned off and then on.
Query: *ESR?
Response: The decimal sum of the bits set to 1
Example: The decimal value 136 is returned. The decimal sum = 128 (bit 7) + 8 (bit 3).
Table 5 Standard Event Status Register Bits
Bit Description
*ESE <data> <data> is the sum of the decimal values of the bits you want to enable.
Example: To enable bit 7 and bit 6 so that whenever either of those bits are set to 1, the
Standard Event Status summary bit of the Status Byte Register is set to 1. Send the
command *ESE 192 (128 + 64).
Query: *ESE?
Response: Decimal value of the sum of the bits previously enabled with the *ESE <data>
command.