
TH2883 Series Operation Manual Chapter 8 SCPI Command reference
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including units.
For example: disp:page meas = DISP:PAGE MEAS = DiSp:PAGe MEas
8.2
Notation conventions and definitions
1.
The following characters are used in the command syntax.
: A colon is used to separate the higher level commands and the lower level commands.
; The semicolon can be used as a separator to execute multiple commands on a single line.
* Asterisk is used to indicate that the command followed is a common command.
?
A question mark is used to generate a query for the command in front of it.
,
Comma is used to separate the multi-parameters in the command.
_ White space is used to separate the command and the parameters.
“” Double quotation marks indicate that the enclosed test is string data.
2.
The following characters will be used in this chapter to describe GPIB commands.
NR1 Integer numeric data For example: 123
NR2
Fixed point numeric data For example: 12.3
NR3
Floating point numeric data For example: 12.3E+5
NL
New Line character (decimal 10) is the end of the input/output string.
^END:
EOI terminator signal of IEEE-488 bus.
< >
Angular brackets enclose words or characters that are used to symbolize a program
code parameter or a GPIB command.
[ ]
Square brackets indicate that the enclosed items are optional.
8.3
Command reference
TH2883 subsystem commands:
DISPlay
COMParator
Impulse VOLTage
Sample RATE
Standard WAVE
TRIGger
FETCh
?
MEASure
ABORt
STATistic
WADJust
MMEMory
MassSTEP
WaveSTEP
GPIB common commands:
*RST
*TRG
*IDN
8.3.1 DISPlay subsystem commands
The DISPlay subsystem commands set the display page. Figure 8-3 shows the command tree of
the DISPlay subsystem commands.