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STATus Subsystem
STATus Subsystem
The STATus command subsystem enables you to examine the status of the power
meter by monitoring the following status registers:
– Device status register
– Operation status register
– Questionable status register
The contents of these and other registers in the power meter are determined by
one or more status registers.
Table 11-1
status registers:
Table 11-1
Commands and events affecting Status Register
Status Register
SCPI Transition Filters (NTR and PTR registers)
SCPI Enable Registers
SCPI Event Registers
SCPI Error/Event Queue enable
SCPI Error/Event Queue
IEEE488.2 Registers ESE SRE
IEEE488.2 Registers SESR STB
The contents of the status registers are examined using the following status
register set commands:
:CONDition?
:ENABle <NRf>|<non-decimal numeric>
[:EVENt?]
:NTRansition <NRf>|<non-decimal numeric>
:PTRansition <NRf>|<non-decimal numeric>
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summarizes the effects of various commands and events on these
N1911A/1912A P-Series Power Meters Programming Guide
*RST
*CLS
Power On
none
none
preset
none
none
preset
none
clear
clear
none
none
preset
none
clear
clear
none
none
clear
none
clear
clear
STATus:
PRESet
preset
preset
none
preset
none
none
none