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Programming the Agilent 16522A
STEP
STEP
Command/Query
The STEP command consists of four types: the STEP command, the STEP
Count command, the STEP query, and the STEP FSTate command.
The STEP command causes the pattern generator to step through the
number of vectors specified by the STEP Count command. If one of the
instructions is BREAK, STEP will not stop for it.
The STEP Count command specifies the vector range for the STEP
command. The valid vector range for the STEP Count command is from 1 to
100,000. The default is 1. If <count> is greater than the number of lines in
the program, STEP will loop back to the beginning until it has stepped
through <count> number of vectors.
The STEP query returns the current count.
The STEP FSTate (step first state) command outputs the first vector of the
sequence.
If the vectors have been changed since last run, they must be loaded into the
hardware with either the :START command or :STEP FSTate.
STEP command
:STEP
Syntax
Example
OUTPUT XXX;":STEP"
STEP Count
STEP <count>
command Syntax
an integer from 1 to 100,000 specifying the number of vectors stepped.
<count>
Example
10 OUTPUT XXX;":STEP 20"
20 OUTPUT XXX;":STEP"
This example sets the step count to 20 in line 10, then in line 20 begins the
step command through the number of lines specified in line 10.
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