
THM1176/TFM1186 Use
r’s Manual
v 2.0 r 1.0
– 02/20
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5-5 IEEE 488.2 COMMON COMMANDS
As any IEEE 488.2 compliant instrument, the THM1176 family supports the
following commands.
Command Name
Description
*CLS
Clear status
Clear all event registers and queues (not
enable registers) and error buffer
*ESE
<NRf>
Program event
enable
Program standard event enable register
*ESE?
Event enable query
Read standard event enable register
*ESR?
Event status query
Read standard event register and clear it
*IDN?
Identification query
Returns the following information:
manufacturer; model; serial number; and
version of electronics, probe 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
<NRf>
Program status
enable
Program status enable register
Important: you must also enable service
requests on the host. See Section 5-7 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
5-6 SCPI COMMANDS
In the command definitions below, the following conventions are used:
[]
optional keywords or parameters
<>
value