
FDI2056 Use
r’s Manual
v 2.0 r 1.1
– 03/13
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Command
Name
Description
*IDN?
Identification query
Returns
the
following
information:
manufacturer; model; serial number; and
version of electronics and firmware. Note that
this query returns “Arbitrary ASCII Response
Data” (see IEEE488.2 standard) and cannot
be followed by another query in the same
command sequence.
*OPC
Set operation
complete
Set the operation complete bit in the standard
event register after all commands have been
executed
*OPC?
Operation complete
query
Returns an ASCII “1” after all commands
have been executed
*RST
Reset
Reset device to power-on configuration
*SRE <value>
Program
status
enable
Program
status
enable
register.
Important: you must also enable service
requests on the host. See Section 3-8 for
details.
*SRE?
Status enable query
Read status enable register
*STB?
Status byte query
Read status byte register
*TRG
Trigger
Generate bus trigger
*TST?
Self-test Query
Perform complete self-test, return 0 if
successful, 1 if not
*WAI
Wait-to-Continue
Wait
until
previous
commands
have
completed
3-6 SCPI COMMAND SYNTAX
In the command definitions below, the following conventions are used:
[ ]
optional keywords or parameters
< >
value
#
channel number. When omitted, the command assumes all channels to
be selected.
|
Each optional value is separated by this symbol.
The abbreviated form of each command is written in capital letters. For example,
the "MEASure" command can be written as "MEASURE" or "MEAS", or, since
capitalization doesn't matter, "measure" or "meas".
The following special parameters are recognized by most commands
MINimum, MAXimum, DEFault and OPTions