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Keywords can be shortened to the first four letters (or 3 if the last letter is a vowel). To
indicate this, the notation uses upper-case to indicate required letters and lower-case to
indicate optional letters (NB: all commands are case-insensitive). For example, valid forms of
the above command include:
Sense:Resistance:Range
SENS:RES:RANG
Sense:resistance:RAnG
To shorten the commands, default (optional) keywords are enclosed in square brackets and
may be omitted. For example, in the case of the command:
MEASure[:SCALar]:VOLTage:[DC]?
Valid forms of this command include:
MEAS:VOLT?
MEASURE:SCALAR:VOLTAGE:DC?
8.3 SCPI Numeric Suffices
In order to support multiple input channels, commands can include numeric suffices. These
are represented by a hash (#) in the command notation, for example:
MEASure:VOLTage<channel#>?
In order to measure the voltage on channel 2, the command used would be:
MEAS:VOLT2?
8.4 Parameters
If a command requires parameter(s), these follow the command and are separated from it by a
space. If more than one parameter is required, each parameter is separated by a comma (,).
For example, the command to measure resistance on channel 1 using a range up to 100 ohm
at the normal 1mA sense current using a 4-wire technique is:
MEAS:RES1? 100,NORM,4
