
Section 2: General operation
Models 707B and 708B Switching Matrix Reference Manual
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707B-901-01 Rev. A / August 2010
3. Select the pattern.
4. In the Actions box, to:
•
Open the channels in the channel pattern: Click
OPEN
.
•
Close the channels in the channel pattern without affecting any other channels: Select Channel Close,
then click
CLOSE
.
•
Close the channels in the channel pattern and open any other closed channels on the instrument:
Select Exclusive Close and click
CLOSE
.
•
Close the channels in the channel pattern and open any other closed channels on the slot: Select
Exclusive Slot Close and click
CLOSE
.
To close or open the channels in a channel pattern from the remote interface:
•
channel.close() (on page 7-19)
•
channel.exclusiveclose() (on page 7-24)
•
channel.exclusiveslotclose() (on page 7-25)
•
channel.open()
(on page 7-35)
NOTE
Instrument Control Library (ICL) command reference
(on page 7-8) for detail on each
command.
Channel pattern storage
Channel patterns are:
•
Part of the script that is created with Create Config Script.
•
Deleted when the instrument is reset.
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Deleted when a channel associated with the pattern is reset.
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Allocated 32KB of memory in the Models 707B and 708B instrument for all channel patterns.
To see how much of the channel pattern memory is available or used, send the command:
print(memory.available())
or
print(memory.used())
Refer to
memory.available()
(on page 7-135) or
memory.used()
(on page 7-137).