General Status Register Model - Agilent Technologies E5071C Manual

E5071C

General Status Register Model

Overview
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Event Register
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Enable Register
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Status Byte Register
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Condition Register and Transition Filter
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Other topics about Status Reporting System
Overview
The Agilent E5071C has a status reporting system to report the condition
of the instrument.
General status register model
The status reporting system has a hierarchical structure as shown in the
figure above. When the instrument satisfies a particular condition, the
corresponding bit of the event register is set to 1. Therefore, you can
check the instrument status by reading the event register.
When the event register bit is set to "1" and a corresponding enable
register bit (a bit marked with an arrow in General status register model) is
also "1," the summary bit of the status byte register is set to "1." You can
read the status byte register by using the serial poll.
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