User Manual

2400 Series SourceMeter
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User’s Manual Common Commands 16-5
*WAI — wait-to-continue
Effectively, the *WAI command is a
No-Op (no operation) for the SourceMeter and thus, does not need to be used.
Two types of device commands exist:
Sequential commands — A command whose operations are allowed to fin-
ish before the next command is executed.
Overlapped commands — A command that allows the execution of subse-
quent commands while device operations of the Overlapped command are
still in progress.
The *WAI command is used to suspend the execution of subsequent commands
until the device operations of all previous Overlapped commands are finished.
The *WAI command is not needed for Sequential commands.
Wait until previous commands are com-