Running Parallel Test Scripts - Keithley 708B Reference Manual

Section 6: Instrument programming

Running parallel test scripts

You can issue the execute command from the master node to initiate test script and Lua code on a
remote node. The execute command places the remote node in the overlapped operation state. As
a test script runs on the remote node, the master node continues to process other commands in
parallel.
Note the following:
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Use the following code to send the execute command on a remote node.
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N represents the node number that runs the test script.
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Replace N with the node number.
To set the global variable on Node N equal to 2.5:
node[N].execute("setpoint = 2.5")
The following code is an example of how to run a test script on a remote node.
For this example, scriptVar is defined on the local node.
To run scriptVar on Node N:
node[N].execute(scriptVar.source)
The following code demonstrates how to run a test script defined on a remote node.
For this example, scriptVar is defined on the remote node.
To execute a script defined on the remote node:
node[N].execute("scriptVar()")
It is recommended that you copy large scripts to a remote node to improve system performance. See
Copying test scripts across the TSP-Link network
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