Section 5: Introduction to SCPI commands
Model 2450 Interactive SourceMeter® Instrument Reference Manual
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Sending strings
If you are sending a string, it must begin and end with matching quotes (either single quotes or
double quotes). If you want to include a quote character as part of the string, type it twice with no
characters in between.
A command string sent to the instrument must terminate with a <new line> character. The IEEE-488.2
EOI (end-or-identify) message is interpreted as a <new line> character and can be used to terminate
a command string in place of a <new line> character. A <carriage return> followed by a <new line> is
also accepted. Command string termination will always reset the current SCPI command path to the
root level.
Using the SCPI command reference
The SCPI command reference contains detailed descriptions of each of the SCPI commands that you
can use to control your instrument. Each command description is broken into several standard
subsections. The figure below shows an example of a command description.
Figure 122: SCPI command description example
Each command listing is divided into five major subsections that contain information about the
command:
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Command name and summary table
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Usage
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Details
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Example
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Also see
The content of each of these subsections is described in the following topics.
