
Remote Control Fundamentals
NRP2
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(
chapter 5.7.1, "SCPI Standard"
on page 175). The standard allows device-spe-
cific extensions of commands.
Parallelism
●
Overlapping commands
can be executed while another command is being executed.
●
Sequential commands
can only be executed when the execution of all other commands is completed.
In the R&S
NRP2, only the remote control commands
INIT:IMM
and
CAL:ZERO:AUTO ONCE
can overlap with other commands.
5.6.2.2
Responses
Responses are messages sent by the device to the controller after a query. This may
be measurement results, for instance, or device status information.
5.7 Structure and Syntax of device-dependent Messages
5.7.1 SCPI Standard
SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) describes a standardized
command set for the programming of instruments regardless of the type of instrument
or manufacturer. The objective of the SCPI Consortium is to standardize device-spe-
cific commands as far as possible. For this purpose, a device model has been devel-
oped which defines identical functions within a device or between different devices.
Command systems have been created and assigned to these functions so that it is
possible to address identical functions with the same commands. The command sys-
tems have an hierarchical structure. The
tree structure, using details from the
SENSe
command system which selects the mea-
surement to be performed by the device. Most of the other examples of command syn-
tax and structure are taken from this command system. SCPI is based on the IEEE
488.2 standard, i.e. it uses the same syntax elements and the common commands
defined in IEEE 488.2. The syntax of the responses is subjected to somewhat stricter
rules than those specified by the IEEE 488.2 standard (
5.7.2 Command Structure
Commands consist of a header and usually one or several parameters. Header and
parameters are separated by a white space (ASCII code 0 to 9, 11 to 32 decimal, e.g.
Structure and Syntax of device-dependent Messages
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