Instrument Subsystem; Select Application - Agilent Technologies ESA-E Series Programmer's Manual

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INSTrument Subsystem

INSTrument Subsystem
This subsystem includes commands for querying and selecting
instrument measurement (personality option) modes.

Select Application

:INSTrument[:SELect] SA|(application specific mode)
:INSTrument[:SELect]?
Select the measurement application (mode) by enumerated choice. The
actual available choices depends upon which applications (modes) are
installed in the instrument. See the manual that was part of the
installed option for the mode designator (if any) of that option.
Once the instrument mode is selected, only the commands that are
valid for that mode can be executed.
If you are using the SCPI status registers and the analyzer mode is
NOTE
changed, the status bits should be read, and any error conditions
resolved, prior to switching modes. Error conditions that exist prior to
switching modes cannot be detected using the condition registers after
the mode change. This is true unless they recur after the mode change,
although transitions of these conditions can be detected using the event
registers.
Changing modes resets all SCPI status registers and mask registers to
their power-on defaults. Therefore, any event or condition register
masks must be re-established after a mode change. Also note that the
power up status bit is set by any mode change, since that is the default
state after power up.
Factory Preset
and *RST:
Front Panel
Access:
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Persistent state with factory default of Spectrum
Analyzer
Mode
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