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Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
Instrument Initialization
Instrument Initialization
This section discusses the various methods available to the programmer to
initialize the Test Set to a known state.
With over 22 instruments utilizing greater than 25 screens containing hundreds of
fields which can be programmed through the HP-IB bus, a hard copy list of the
default condition for every field in every instrument screen would be
cumbersome. The recommended method of determining the default condition for
every field in a particular instrument screen is to select the PRESET key, display
the instrument screen of interest and view the contents of the fields.
Apart from the individual instruments it is important, from a programmatic
perspective, to know the default conditions of the I/O configuration of the Test Set
and how it may be affected by the various methods of initialization. Seven screens
are used to control the I/O configuration of the Test Set:
CONFIGURE screen
I/O CONFIGURE screen
PRINT CONFIGURE screen
TESTS (Main Menu) screen
TESTS (Execution Conditions) screen
TESTS ( External Devices) screen
TESTS (Printer Setup) screen
The following sections discuss how the various methods of initialization affect
these seven screens as well as the Status Reporting Structure of the Test Set.
Summary of Contents for 8920B
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Page 16: ...Contents 16 9 Error Messages Index 673 ...
Page 17: ...17 1 Using HP IB ...
Page 48: ...48 Chapter 1 Using HP IB Remote Local Modes ...
Page 49: ...49 2 Methods For Reading Measurement Results ...
Page 61: ...61 3 HP IB Command Guidelines ...
Page 84: ...84 Chapter 3 HP IB Command Guidelines Guidelines for Operation ...
Page 85: ...85 4 HP IB Commands ...
Page 90: ...90 Adjacent Channel Power ACP ...
Page 116: ...116 Configure I O Configure ...
Page 156: ...156 Call Processing ...
Page 185: ...185 System System SYSTem ERRor Returns integer value quoted string ...
Page 242: ...242 Common Command Descriptions ...
Page 251: ...251 5 Advanced Operations ...
Page 377: ...377 7 IBASIC Controller ...
Page 458: ...458 Chapter 7 IBASIC Controller The TESTS Subsystem ...
Page 640: ...640 Chapter 8 Programming The Call Processing Subsystem Example Programs 11280 SUBEND 11290 ...
Page 643: ...643 9 Error Messages ...
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