Using The Instrument Status Registers - Agilent Technologies E4406A VSA Series Programmer's Manual

Using the Instrument Status Registers

You can determine the state of certain instrument hardware and
firmware events and conditions by programming the status register
system. The Figure on page 76
registers and their hierarchy. The IEEE common (*) commands access
the higher-level summary registers. To access the status information
from specific registers you would use the STATus commands in
5 , "Language Reference."
• "What are the Status Registers?" on page 70
• "Why Would You Use the Status Registers?" on page 72
• "Using a Status Register" on page 74
• "Using the Service Request (SRQ) Method" on page 74
• "Overall Status Register System" on page 76
• "Standard Event Status Register" on page 80
• "Operation and Questionable Status Registers" on page 83
Chapter 2
Programming Fundamentals
Using the Instrument Status Registers
shows all the instrument status
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