Keithley 2601B Reference Manual page 9

Series 2600B System SourceMeter® Instrument Reference Manual
Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 6-11
What is Lua? ........................................................................................................................... 6-11
Lua basics ............................................................................................................................... 6-11
Standard libraries .................................................................................................................... 6-26
Programming example ............................................................................................................ 6-30
Test Script Builder (TSB) ................................................................................................... 6-30
Installing the TSB software...................................................................................................... 6-30
Installing the TSB add-in ......................................................................................................... 6-31
Using Test Script Builder (TSB) .............................................................................................. 6-31
Project navigator ..................................................................................................................... 6-32
Script editor ............................................................................................................................. 6-33
Outline view............................................................................................................................. 6-33
Programming interaction ......................................................................................................... 6-34
Password management ..................................................................................................... 6-34
Password overview ................................................................................................................. 6-35
Working with TSB Embedded ............................................................................................ 6-37
Sending instrument commands with TSB Embedded ............................................................. 6-37
Advanced scripting for TSP ............................................................................................... 6-38
Global variables and the script.user.scripts table .................................................................... 6-38
Create a script using the script.new() command ..................................................................... 6-40
Rename a script ...................................................................................................................... 6-42
Retrieve a user script .............................................................................................................. 6-44
Delete user scripts from the instrument ................................................................................... 6-45
Restore a script to the run-time environment .......................................................................... 6-46
Memory considerations for the run-time environment ............................................................. 6-46
TSP-Link system expansion interface ................................................................................ 6-47
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 6-48
Connections ............................................................................................................................ 6-50
Initialization ............................................................................................................................. 6-50
Resetting the TSP-Link network .............................................................................................. 6-51
Using the expanded system .................................................................................................... 6-52
TSP advanced features ........................................................................................................... 6-53
Using groups to manage nodes on TSP-Link network ............................................................ 6-56
Running simultaneous test scripts ........................................................................................... 6-57
Using the data queue for real-time communication ................................................................. 6-58
Copying test scripts across the TSP-Link network .................................................................. 6-58
Removing stale values from the reading buffer cache ............................................................ 6-59
TSP-Net ............................................................................................................................. 6-59
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 6-59
TSP-Net capabilities ................................................................................................................ 6-60
Using TSP-Net with any ethernet instrument .......................................................................... 6-60
TSP-Net compared to TSP-Link to communicate with TSP-enabled devices ......................... 6-62
TSP-Net instrument commands: General device control ........................................................ 6-62
TSP-Net instrument commands: TSP-enabled device control ................................................ 6-62
Example: Using tspnet commands .......................................................................................... 6-63
TSP command reference .......................................................................................... 7-1
TSP command programming notes ..................................................................................... 7-1
Placeholder text ........................................................................................................................ 7-2
Syntax rules .............................................................................................................................. 7-3
Time and date values ................................................................................................................ 7-3
Using the TSP command reference ..................................................................................... 7-4
Command name and summary table ........................................................................................ 7-4
Command usage ....................................................................................................................... 7-5
Command details ...................................................................................................................... 7-6
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