Remote control - status reporting system
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®
RTB2000
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User Manual 1333.1611.02 ─ 11
Figure B-2: Overview of the status registers hierarchy
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STB, SRE
The STatus Byte (
STB
) register and its associated mask register Service Request
Enable (
SRE
) form the highest level of the status reporting system. The
STB
pro-
vides a rough overview of the instrument status, collecting the information of the
lower-level registers.
●
ESR, SCPI registers
The STB receives its information from the following registers:
–
The Event Status Register (
ESR
) with the associated mask register standard
Event Status Enable (
ESE
).
–
The
STATus:OPERation
and
STATus:QUEStionable
registers which are
defined by SCPI and contain detailed information on the instrument.
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Output buffer
Hierarchy of status registers