
General Information
v
Notation
The following notation will be used throughout this manual.
A warning means that injury or death is possible if the instructions
WARNING
are not obeyed.
A caution means that damage to the instrument or other equipment
CAUTION
is possible.
Typesetting conventions used in this manual are:
•
Front-panel buttons are set as [Button];
[Adjust ] is shorthand for “[Adjust ] & [Adjust ]”.
•
Front-panel indicators are set as
Overload
.
•
Remote command names are set as
*IDN?
.
•
Literal text other than command names is set as
OFF
.
Remote command examples will all be set in monospaced font. In
these examples, data sent by the host computer to the SIM980 are set
as
straight teletype font
, while responses received by the host
computer from the SIM980 are set as
slanted teletype font
.
SIM980
Analog Summing Amplifier