Keithley TEC SourceMeter 2510, User Manual

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Status register format
:SREGister <name>
:FORMat:SREGister <name> Set data format for reading status registers
Parameters
<name> = ASCii Decimal format
HEXadecimal Hexadecimal format
OCTal Octal format
BINary Binary format
Query
:SREGister? Query format for reading status registers
Description
Query commands are used to read the contents of the status event regis-
ters. This command is used to set the response message format for those
query commands.
When a status register is queried, the response message is a value that
indicates which bits in the register are set. For example, if bits B5, B4,
B2, B1, and B0 of a register are set (110111), the following values will
be returned for the selected data format:
ASCii 55 (decimal value)
HEXadecimal #H37 (hexadecimal value)
OCTal #Q67 (octal value)
BINary #B110111 (binary value)
See Section 7 , Status Structure , and “STATus subsystem,” page 10-46 ,
for more information.