Technical data

212 Agilent N8211A/N8212A Performance Upconverter Synthetic Instrument Module, 250 kHz to 20 / 40 GHz
7 System Commands
This is a list of the SCPI-defined basic functionality of the N8211A/N8212A and the
additional capabilities it has in parallel (a&b) and singularly (a|b).
:ERRor[:NEXT]
Supported All
:SYSTem:ERRor[:NEXT]?
Returns the most recent error message from the N8211A/N8212A error queue. If there are
no error messages, the query returns the following output:
+0,"No error"
When there is more than one error message, the query will need to be sent for each
message.
The error messages are erased after being queried.
:ERRor:SCPI[:SYNTax]
Supported All
:SYSTem:ERRor:SCPI[:SYNTax] ON|OFF|1|0
:SYSTem:ERRor:SCPI[:SYNTax]?
Turns on verbose error messages that point out where the SCPI parser generated an error.
Use the ERRor[:NEXT] command to read any reported errors.
Example
:SYST:ERR:SCPI ON
The example enables the SCPI command error report function.
*RST 1
:IDN
Supported All
:SYSTem:IDN "string"
Modifies the identification string that the *IDN? query returns. Sending an empty string
returns the query output of *IDN? to its factory-shipped setting. The maximum string
length is 72 characters.
Modification of the *IDN? query output enables the N8211A/N8212A to identify itself as
another N8211A/N8212A when used as a replacement.