TH2883 Series Operation Manual Chapter 8 SCPI Command reference
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case.)
For example: COMPARATOR:AREASIZE ON = COMP:AREA ON
The command header should be followed by a question mark (?) to generate a query for that
command.
For example: COMP:AREA?
Multiple command rules:
The semicolon (;) can be used as a separator to execute multiple commands on a single line. The
multiple command rules are as follows.
Commands at the same level and in the same subsystem command group can be separated by
a semicolon (;) on a multiple command line.
For example: COMP:AREA:STAT ON;RANG 0,6000
STA ON and RANG 0,6000 are commands in the same level and subcommands under AREA.
To restart commands from the highest level, a semicolon (;) must be used as the separator, and
then a colon (:), which shows that the restarted command is a command at the top of the
command tree, must follow.
For example: COMP:AREA:STAT ON;:COMP:AREA:RANG 0,6000
The GPIB common commands can be placed in previous, middle or last on a multiple
command line, partitioned off with semicolons.
For example: COMP:AREA ON;*trg;DIFF ON
Short-form rules:
If complete commands and parameters (called long form afterwards) have four characters or
less, the long form and short form are the same.
When the long form has more than 4 characters:
1. And if the 4th character is a vowel, the short form is the first 3 characters of the long form.
2. If the 4th character is not a vowel, the short form is the first 4 characters.
For example:
TIME abbreviates to TIME.
TRIGger abbreviates to TRIG.
DELete abbreviates to DEL.
FREQuency abbreviates to FREQ.
If the long form mnemonic is defined as a phrase rather than a single word, then the long form
mnemonic is the first character of the first word(s) followed by the entire last word. The above
rules, when the long form mnemonic is a single word, are then applied to the resulting long
form mnemonic to obtain the short form.
For example: Mass MEMory abbreviates to MMEM (long form is MMEMory)
Impulse VOLTage abbreviates to IVOLT(long form is IVOLTage)
NOTE: At the process of commands, the instrument does not distinguish letter case
