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Section 19: Remote Commands Series 2600A System SourceMeter® Instruments Reference Manual
timer
The functions in this group are used for the timer. The timer can be used to measure the time it
takes to perform various operations. Use the
timer.reset
function at the beginning of an
operation to reset the timer to zero, and then use the
timer.measure.t
at the end of the
operation to measure the elapsed time.
timer.measure.t
Function Measures the elapsed time since the timer was last reset.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
time = timer.measure.t()
time
Returns the elapsed time in seconds (1µs resolution).
Remarks • This function returns the elapsed time in seconds since the timer was reset.
Also see
timer.reset
Example Resets the timer and then measures the time since the reset:
timer.reset()
...
time = timer.measure.t()
print(time)
Output:
1.01
The above output indicates that
timer.measure.t
was executed 14.69077 seconds after
timer.reset
.
timer.reset
Function Resets the timer to 0 seconds.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
timer.reset()
Remarks This function will restart the timer at zero.
Also see
timer.measure.t
Example Resets the timer and then measures the time since the reset:
timer.reset()
...
time = timer.measure.t()
print(time)
Output:
1.01
The above output indicates that
timer.measure.t
was executed 14.69077 seconds after
timer.reset
.