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IM 253421-01E
Overview of Registers and Queues
Name
Function
Writing
Reading
Status byte
—
Serial poll (RQS),
*STB?
(MSS)
Service request Masks status byte.
*SRE
*SRE?
enable register
Standard event
Event in the
—
*ESR?
register
instrument (1)
Standard event
Masks standard
*ESE
*ESE?
enable register
event register.
Extended event Event in the
—
STATus:EESR?
register
instrument (2)
Extended event Masks extended
STATus:EESE
STATus:EESE?
enable register
event register.
Condition
Current instrument
—
STATus:CONDition?
register
status
Transition
Extended event
STATus:FILTer
STATus:FILTer
filter
occurrence conditions
<x>
<x>
Output queue
Stores response
All executable queues
message to a query.
Error queue
Stores error Nos.
—
STATus:ERRor?
and messages.
Registers and Queues which Affect the Status Byte
Registers which affect each bit of the status byte are
shown below.
Standard event register: Sets bit 5 (ESB) of status byte to “1” or “0”.
Output queue:
Sets bit 4 (MAV) of status byte to “1” or “0”.
Extended event register: Sets bit 3 (EES) of status byte to “1” or “0”.
Error queue:
Sets bit 2 (EAV) of status byte to “1” or “0”.
Enable Registers
Registers which mask a bit so that the bit does not
affect the status byte, even if the bit is set to “
1
”, are
shown below.
Status byte:
Masks bits using the service request enable register.
Standard event register: Masks bits using the standard event enable register.
Extended event register: Masks bits using the extended event enable register.
Writing/Reading from Registers
The
*ESE
command is used to set bits in the standard
event enable register to “
1
” or “
0
”, and the
*ESR?
query
is used to check whether bits in that register are set to
“
1
” or “
0
”. For details of these commands, see section
14.3.
14.4.2 Status Byte
Overview of Status Byte
7
6
ESB MAV EES EAV
1
0
RQS
MSS
Bits 0, 1 and 7
Not used (always “
0
”)
Bit 2 EAV (Error Available)
Set to “
1
” when the error queue is not empty, i.e. when
an error occurs. For details, see page 14-45.
Bit 3 EES (Extended Event Summary Bit)
Set to “
1
” when a logical AND of the extended event
register and the corresponding enable register is “
1
”,
i.e. when an event takes place in the instrument. See
page 14-44.
Bit 4 MAV (Message Available)
Set to “
1
” when the output queue is not empty, i.e.
when there is data which is to be output when an
inquiry is made. See page 14-45.
Bit 5 ESB (Event Summary Bit)
Set to “
1
” when a logical AND of the standard event
register and the corresponding enable register is “
1
”,
i.e. when an event takes place in the instrument. See
page 14-43.
Bit 6 RQS (Request Status)/MSS (Master Summary
Status )
MSS is set to “
1
” when a logical AND of the status byte
(except for bit 6) and the service request enable
register is not “
0
”, i.e. when the instrument is
requesting service from the controller.
RQS is set to “
1
” when MSS changes from “
0
” to “
1
”,
and is cleared when a serial poll is performed or when
MSS changes to “
0
”.
Bit Masking
To mask a bit in the status byte so that it does not
cause an SRQ, set the corresponding bit of the service
request enable register to “
0
”.
For example, to mask bit 2 (EAV) so that no service
will be requested, even if an error occurs, set bit 2 of
the service request enable register to “
0
”. This can be
done using the
*SRE
command. To query whether
each bit of the service request enable register is “
1
” or
“
0
”, use
*SRE?
. For details of the
*SRE
command, see
section 14.3.
14.4 Status Report