User`s guide

System-Related Operation 4
Remote Operation
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SCPI language version
You can determine the SCPI language version of the
instrument by sending the SYSTem:VERSion? command
from the remote interface.
• You can query the SCPI version from the remote interface
only.
• The SCPI version is returned in the form “YYYY.V”,
where “YYYY” represents the year of the version, and “V”
represents a version number for that year (for example,
1994.0).
SCPI query time-out
The SCPI query time- out represents the absolute time period
(in milliseconds) that the resource waits for the device to
respond before this operation returns an error (default value
is 5000 milliseconds).
Some measurements may result in a delayed response time
in the U3606B. It is recommended that you increase the
SCPI query time- out to 15000 milliseconds or longer to
avoid SCPI query time- out errors.
Remote programming using SCPI commands
During remote programming, various SCPI commands are
stringed together in a single programming module. As the
programming module executes each SCPI command
sequentially, a 1 millisecond interval between each
subsequent SCPI command is recommended to allow the
U3606B sufficient command processing time.
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