HP 54501A Programming Reference Manual page 7

Introduction
This manual explains how
to program the
HP 54501A Digitizing
Oscilloscope and
lists the commands and queries
associated
with
this
instrument.
It is
divided into 17 chapters and 2 appendices.
Chapter
1
introduces you to the programming syntax required to
program
this
instrument and provides
some basic
programming
concepts to
get you started
programming..
Chapter
2 describes the interface functions and some general
concepts
of
HP-IB.
Chapter
3 describes the operation of
instruments that operate in
compliance
with the
IEEE 4882
standard.
This chapter
also
describes
the status reporting features that are available
over the
HP-IB.
Chapter
4
covers the conventions
which are used to program the
instrument
as
well
as
conventions used in
the remainder of
this
manual. This chapter
also includes
a
complete command tree and
alphabetic
command cross-reference.
Chapter
5 lists
the Common Commands which are the commands
defined
by IEEE
488.2. These commands control some functions
that are common to all
IEEE
488.2 instruments.
Chapter
6 lists the Root Level Commands which control many of
the basic functions of the instrument.
Chapter
7
lists the System Subsystem Commands which control
some basic functions
of the oscilloscope.
Chapter
8 lists
the
Acquire
Subsystem
Commands which
set
the
parameters for acquiring and storing data.
Chapter
9 lists
the Calibrate Subsystem
Commands which
set
time
nulls
(channel-to-channel skew).
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