WA-1100/WA-1600 Wavemeter Operating Manual
3 Remote Communications
3-2
08115-M-00 Rev E
The instrument terminates all of its messages with an EOS character. It never uses the
EOS character within a message. Therefore, when the system controller receives an EOS
character from the instrument, it can assume that it has received the last character of the
message.
GPIB Bus Timing = 2000ns or 2µs
This sets the minimum time that the system controller will assert the DAV signal after
driving a byte onto the bus.
SCPI Communications Scheme
This topic provides information on the communication scheme that follows the Standard
Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI) Syntax and Style Guidelines.
Table 3-3 provides a summary of commands by subsystem and the information after the
table describes each command in detail.
Note: […] indicates an optional argument. {…|…|…} indicates a choice from a set of
arguments.
Table 3-3. SCPI Command Summary
Group & Command
Description
Common Commands
These commands are defined by
IEEE
488.2 and control
some functions that are common to all
IEEE
488.2
instruments.
*CLS
Clears all event registers and the error queue.
*ESE?
Queries the bits in the standard event status enable register.
*ESE <integer>
Sets the bits in the standard event status enable register.
*ESR?
Queries value standard event status register.
*IDN?
Queries instrument model number, serial number and
firmware version.
*OPC?
Queries the operation complete bit of the standard-event
status register.
*OPC
Sets operation complete bit of the standard event status
register.
*RCL
Restores instrument settings.
*RST
Resets instrument to default settings.
*SAV
Saves instrument settings.
*STB?
Queries the value of status byte.
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