Contents Of This Manual - Agilent Technologies 4288A Programming Manual

Making Effective Use of This Manual

Contents of This Manual

Contents of This Manual
This manual is a programming guide for the Agilent 4288A 1 kHz/1 MHz capacitance
meter. In addition to explanations of how to remotely control the 4288A from BASIC
programs, it provides listings and in-depth descriptions of sample HTBasic programs. The
chapter-by-chapter contents of this manual are as follows.
Chapter 1 "Making Effective Use of This Manual"
This chapter provides an overview of this manual as well as useful information to help
you navigate through the manual. It also briefly describes how to use this manual,
focusing on how you can look up particular commands.
Chapter 2 "Overview of Remote Control"
This chapter gives an overview of the GPIB remote control system and GPIB
commands.
Chapter 3 "Setting Up Measurement Conditions and Display"
This chapter describes how to set up the measurement conditions and display. It also
describes how to save/recall the instrument settings including the measurement
conditions.
Chapter 4 "Preparation for Accurate Measurement (Executing Compensation)"
This chapter describes how to execute the compensation function.
Chapter 5 "Starting (Triggering) Measurement and Waiting for Completion of
Measurement"
This chapter describes how to trigger the instrument to start measurement and how to
detect completion of measurement.
Chapter 6 "Reading Out Measured Result"
This chapter describes how to read out the measured result and the measurement
signal level monitor result.
Chapter 7 "Sorting Based on Measured Result (Comparator Function)"
This chapter describes how to use the comparator function to perform sorting based on
the measured result.
Chapter 8 "Avoiding Mistakes Related to Work and Daily Checks"
This chapter describes how to avoid simple mistakes related to work, how to detect the
occurrence of an error, and how to execute the self-test.
Chapter 9 "Measurement Applications (Sample Programs)"
This chapter contains sample programs for both basic measurement and measurement
using a system integrated with the handler/scanner interface.
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