Keysight Technologies E5260 Series, Programming Manual

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Programming Basics
Data Output Format
Data Output Format
Keysight E5260/E5270 provides the following data output formats:
• “ASCII Data Output Format”
The E5260/E5270 supports ASCII format of the Keysight 4155B/4156B/4155C/
4156C Parameter Analyzer in the Keysight FLEX command control mode and
ASCII format of the Keysight 4142B Modular DC Source/Monitor.
ASCII format provides better data resolution than binary format. You can read
the data without calculation.
• “Binary Data Output Format”
The E5260/E5270 supports binary format of the Keysight 4142B. Binary format
enables faster data transfer time than ASCII format.
To select the data output format, use the FMT command. See “FMT” on page 4-59 .
For the query response, the returned data is always stored in the query buffer in
ASCII format, regardless of the FMT command setting.
A minimum of 17
×
1001
×
2 (34034) measurement data can be stored in the data
output buffer.
Conventions
The following conventions are used in this section.
Data Output data that the E5260/E5270 sends after a measurement.
[ Data ] Optional output data sent when there are multiple output data
items.
For example, source data will be sent with measurement data
after the staircase sweep measurements when the source data
output is enabled by the FMT command.
<terminator> Terminator.
<CR/LF^EOI> (two bytes) or <,> (one byte) for ASCII data.
<CR/LF^EOI> (two bytes) or <^EOI> (0 byte) for binary data.
You can select by using the FMT command.