
November 1985
National Instruments
Become Active Controller
Low-level Controller function
Syntax:
Purpose: You use
to change the GPIB-MAC from Standby
Controller to Active Controller and when the
and bus
management functions do not meet the needs of your
device.
allows you more precise control over the
GPIB than the I/O and bus management functions.
Remarks: If the argument
is 1, the GPIB-MAC takes control
immediately; that is, it takes control asynchronously. If
the argument
is 0, the GPIB-MAC takes control
after any handshake that is in progress completes; that is,
it takes control synchronously.
If you call
without an argument, the GPIB-MAC
returns to you the current controller status, which is 0 if
the GPIB-MAC is
the Active Controller
if the
GPIB-MAC the Active Controller.
If call
with an argument and the GPIB-MAC is not
CIC, the GPIB-MAC records the ECIC error.
The power-on Controller status of the GPIB-MAC is
Idle Controller.
Refer also to
and
sic.
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