WA-1150 and WA-1650 Wavemeter Operating Manual
3 Remote Communications
EXFO Burleigh Products Group Inc. (09042-M-00 Rev C)
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3. Remote
Communications
This section discusses the use of remote communications to review and control the
instrument.
Overview
You can control the instrument remotely using either an RS-232 or a GPIB interface
using the SCPI communications scheme. Connections for both interfaces are provided
on the back of the instrument as shown later in this section.
You must use the instrument front panel controls to enable remote communications for
the specific type of interface. Refer to Table 2-4 in Section 2 of this manual for
information.
SCPI Communications Scheme
This topic provides information on the communication scheme that follows the Standard
Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI) Syntax and Style Guidelines.
Table 3-3 provides a summary of commands by subsystem and the information after the
table describes each command in detail.
Note: […] indicates an optional argument. {…|…|…} indicates a choice from a set of
arguments.
Table 3-3. SCPI Command Summary
Group & Command
Description
Common Commands
Defined by IEEE 488.2, these control some functions that
are common to all IEEE 488.2 instruments.
*CLS
Clears all event registers and the error queue.
*ESE?
Queries the bits in the standard event status enable register.
*ESE <integer>
Sets the bits in the standard event status enable register.
*ESR?
Queries value standard event status register.
*IDN?
Queries instrument model number, serial number and
firmware version.
*OPC?
Queries the operation complete bit of the standard-event
status register.
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