Keysight Technologies N4960A User Manual page 10

6 Remote Operation............................................................................... 113
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15
6.16
7 Returning the N4960A to Keysight ..................................................... 233
8 Appendix A Preset State ..................................................................... 235
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GPIB Interface ........................................................................... 113
USB Interface ............................................................................ 114
6.2.1 USB Driver .................................................................... 115
6.2.2 USB Programming Note .............................................. 115
Remote Command Syntax ........................................................ 116
6.3.1 Command Structure ..................................................... 116
IEEE Common Commands ........................................................ 117
SCPI Mandated Commands ..................................................... 118
SCPI Protocol Description ........................................................ 118
6.6.1 SCPI Example ............................................................... 118
SCPI Numeric Parameters and Optional Units ........................ 119
Pattern Generator Channelization ............................................ 119
Command Conventions ............................................................ 121
SCPI Standard Negative Event/Error Codes ............................ 121
6.10.1 "Settings Conflict" Used for Settings Dependencies .. 122
N4960A Serial BERT Controller Device Commands ................ 123
Pattern Generator Device Commands ..................................... 166
Error Detector Device Commands ........................................... 184
Command Summary ................................................................. 208
6.14.1 N4960A Serial BERT Controller Command Summary 208
6.14.2 Pattern Generator Command Summary ...................... 212
6.14.3 Error Detector Command Summary ............................ 214
Programming Example ............................................................. 217
Programming Tips ..................................................................... 227
6.16.1 Example Using *OPC? .................................................. 228
6.16.2 Example Using *WAI ..................................................... 228
6.16.3 Communication Timeouts ............................................ 229
Keysight N4960A Serial BERT 17 and 32 Gb/s User Guide