Section 5: Remote commands
Models 707B and 708B Switching Matrix Reference Manual
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707B-901-01 Rev. A / August 2010
About ICL commands
This section contains an overview of the ICL commands organized into to groups, with a brief
description of each group and links to the detailed command descriptions in the
Library (ICL) command reference
(on page 7-8) in this manual.
beeper functions and attributes
The beeper commands allow you to enable or disable the instrument beeper and set the frequency. When
enabled, you can set the duration of the beep.
beeper.beep()
bit functions
The bit functions perform bitwise logic operations on two given numbers, and bit operations on one
given number. Logic and bit operations truncate the fractional part of given numbers to make them
integers.
Logic operations
The
bit.bitand()
,
bit.bitor()
, and
bit.bitxor()
functions in this group perform logic
operations on two numbers. The Test Script Processor (TSP) performs the indicated logic operation
on the binary equivalents of the two integers. Bitwise logic operations are performed. This means that
the logical AND, OR, or XOR operation is performed on Bit 1 of the first number and Bit 1 of the
second number. The logical AND, OR, or XOR operation is performed on Bit 2 of the first number and
Bit 2 of the second number. This bitwise logic operation is performed on all corresponding bits of the
two numbers. The result of a logic operation is returned as an integer.
Bit operations
The rest of the functions in this group are used for operations on the bits of a given number. These
functions can be used to:
•
Clear
a
bit
•
Toggle a bit
•
Test a bit
•
Set a bit or bit field
•
Retrieve the weighted value of a bit or field value
All of these functions use an index parameter to specify the bit position of the given number. The least
significant bit of a given number has an index of 1, and the most significant bit has an index of 32.
