Remote Control
R&S
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CMW500
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User Manual 1173.9463.02 ─ 02
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Parts in square brackets can be omitted when composing the command header.
The complete command must be recognized by the instrument for reasons of com-
patibility with the SCPI standard. Parameters in square brackets are optional as well.
They may be entered in the command or omitted.
Example
: The following two commands have the same effect
SOURce:GPRF:GENerator[:STATe] ON
SOURce:GPRF:GENerator ON
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Braces or curly brackets enclose one or more parameters that may be included
zero or more times.
Optional mnemonics with suffixes
An optional mnemonic must not be omitted if its effect is further specified by a numeric
suffix.
Long and short form
The key words have a long form and a short form. The short form consists of all upper-
case characters, the long form of all upper case plus all lower case characters. The R&S
CMW500 recognizes both the short form and the long form.
Example:
SOUR:GPRF:GEN:STAT ON
SOURce:GPRF:GENerator:STATe ON
Case insensitivity
The short form is marked by upper case letters, the long form corresponds to the complete
word. Upper case and lower case notation only serves to distinguish the two forms in the
manual, the instrument itself is case-insensitive.
Parameters
Many commands are supplemented by a parameter or a list of parameters. Parameters
either provide alternative options (setting a or setting b or setting c ..., see special char-
acter "|"), or they form a list separated by commas (setting x,y).
In the command reference parameters are generally described by a name (literal) written
in angle brackets (<>). This literal merely serves as a parameters description; in an appli-
cation program it must be replaced by one of the possible settings reported in the detailed
parameter description.
For a description of the parameter types, refer to section
.
Example
:
SOURce:GPRF:GENerator:STATe <Boolean>
with <Boolean> = ON | OFF
possible command syntax:
SOURce:GPRF:GENerator:STATe ON
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