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1257 User Manual
Advanced SCPI Operations 7-10
EADS North America Defense
Test and Services, Inc.
©
2001
The trigger and arm state diagram is shown in
Figure 7-1
. This
diagram shows that the 1257 must be armed before it responds to
triggers. Once it is armed, it remains armed and sequences
through the scan list until the number of triggers equal to the
trigger count is received. After that, it is disarmed and must be
rearmed again. The 1257 may also be manually disarmed with the
ABORT command.
Figure 7-1, State Transition Diagram For Arming and Triggering the 1257
Generating a Single
Trigger
The 1257 may be armed, and a single trigger may be sent, using
the TRIGGER:IMMEDIATE command. The syntax for this
command is:
:TRIGger
[:SEQuence]
:IMMediate
This command is equivalent to the following:
A)
Programming the trigger source